Certainly the setting with its wide-open forests and naval battles is a welcome change.
The Republicans celebrated last month's triumph by fast-tracking several K-Street favourites: exempting older coal-fired plants from new anti-pollution rules, and making it easier to open national forests to logging and drilling.
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In one of the large open meetings in forests, some members of the community stated that most of the problems they face were results of illiteracy.
We need to be conservationists to be sure, preserving wetlands, forests, open spaces and coastlines.
Odzala is characterized by a rich variety of habitats, including primary rain forest with a closed canopy (e.g. with Entandrophragma utile, E. candollei and E. cylindricum) and open understorey layer, forests dominated by dense formations of Marantaceae, forest clearings and savannas on the hilltops (e.g. with Hymenocardia acida, Annona arenaria or Hyparrhenia diplandra).
" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.
The modern freeways and suburban sprawl give way to high grasslands in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve and dense redwood forests north of Santa Cruz.
The brainchild of American biologist Theron Morgan-Brown, it's based in Tanzania's East Usambara Mountains -- a region known for its biodiversity, but where forests are being cleared to produce charcoal and to open up farmland.
Habitats in the biosphere reserve comprise barrier islands, beach and sand dunes, salt marshes, maritime forests, tidal creeks, fresh and brackish water impoundments and open water areas.
While the survey volunteers are out in the forests, they will also be keeping their eyes and ears open for other species during the study - including the nightjar.
Environmental groups have long complained that the WTO speeds the destruction of the world's forests and other resources by pressing its member nations to throw open their markets to increased trade.
The house is open to the public and the rambling grounds have a number of easy walks though ancient forests.
And countries (generally poor ones) who have the rain forests should be compensated for protecting them, particularly when they are under so much economic pressure to open them up to mining companies.
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