President GEORGE W. BUSH: We need to make our forests healthy by using some common sense.
Indonesia possesses the responsibility to manage our forests, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gas effects from the forest.
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Many of our forests have also been hit by disease and insect infestation that pose a mortal threat to their future.
As he explored wild country, he heard a call to preserve our country's heritage that echoed throughout our forests and river valleys.
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That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks.
"We'll be talking to all those who are passionate about our forests to decide how we will manage our forests for the future, " she added.
"The future of our farmlands, our forests, our health, our climate - these are the biggest threats humanity faces and they are far more important than concerns over liability, " he said.
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" Girls were also urged to apply to natural resources the principles of conservation practiced at home, recognizing that "in this United States of ours we have cut down too many trees and our forests are fast following the buffalo.
" 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.
Though the bill doesn't address the hot-button subject of commercial logging in public forests, it goes a long way toward bringing good-sense management to our national forests.
But it takes areas that are now roadless - that's a technical designation, but it also means they don't have roads - in our national forests.
For other species, we are their spokespersons and it is up to us to acknowledge our indebtedness to them: to all of the soldiers that make our soil, our atmosphere, our rivers and seas and forests the life sustaining ecosystems that have given us our breath, our dreams, our hopes.
And it works the other way too: Our BMW worker going off into the woods to cut firewood for the winter has less environmental impact (given the size of German forests at least) than our GM one staying on the production line and using the money to buy heating oil for the winter.
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Mountain bikes designed for scrabbling along goat tracks or the heart of forests are as superfluous and unsuitable for our purposes as gigantic 4x4 off-road SUVs are on the school run.
But what about the rivers, forests, lakes, and swamps that provide our air, water and food?
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From the village we picked our way up the Sasyk-Bulak Valley through green forests until Lake Issyk-Kul finally disappeared and snowy peaks surrounded us.
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It is up to Apple to shake the forests so we can start finding spaces amongst the trees to grow our saplings.
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Before we started torching carbon stored in forests and then carbon stored underground as coal and oil, the carbon dioxide concentration of our atmosphere was about 280 parts per million (ppm).
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