Joe owns 450, 000 hectares of pine forests, running from Jacksonville to Florida's panhandle, and former sugarcane groves near Miami.
Mosquitia is far away, but in the latest fires some 70% of the pine forests around Tegucigalpa have burned.
Joe owns 1.1 million acres of pine forests, running from Jacksonville to Florida's panhandle, and former sugarcane groves near Miami.
The company agreed to donate 4, 000 acres in the middle of one of its pine forests for a new airport.
Fortunately, vast pine forests in Wisconsin and Michigan could be cut and shipped down Lake Michigan to Chicago to support this westward expansion.
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Between 40 and 50 homes in the area were evacuated as more than 200 crew members and a helicopter were fighting the blaze burning through pine forests and brush.
At the Aiken County truck plant, 400 of the 560 acres are given up to mixed-pine forests, and the company has planted tens of thousands of native and threatened longleaf pines, which can grow to 90 feet.
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Ponderosa pine forests are now dangerously dense.
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It has the reek of the black-frocked missionary sniffing down his nose at the primitives animism without ever wondering if his own wine-and-a-cracker deity might not be just as phony as the numinous spirits of the riverbeds and pine forests.
And although I have come here in search of the red plenty of the soil and its produce, I realise that the journey has led me also to the green that Juan talked about: the herbs inside this bottle have given the liquid the exact mossy-yellow colour of the pine forests and vineyards that surround us.
Walk along pastoral paths, vivid green rice paddies, past bright white dzongs (massive, awe-inspiring fortress monasteries), through forests of pine, and rhododendron and along glorious mountain passes where the elusive poppies nod in the breeze.
These low-intensity fires did little damage to the big Ponderosa pine trees that dominated western forests.
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The coastal strip includes beaches and chain dunes, alternating with forests, centenary pine trees, and complex lagoon systems interconnected by the water-table.
The subalpine forests are dominated by lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), P. albicaulis and alpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa).
As an example, he cited the pine beetle infestation of this summer in the forests of Colorado and western Canada.
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In 2002 a fire in Oregon's Six Rivers and Siskiyou national forests scorched 500, 000 acres of Douglas fir and ponderosa pine.
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