" 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.
The coastal strip includes beaches and chain dunes, alternating with forests, centenary pine trees, and complex lagoon systems interconnected by the water-table.
As those industries shrank, forests grew and trees aged.
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West and south of Siena, and two hours north of Rome, it sweeps from a Tyrrhenian seacoast of limestone cliffs, deserted dunes, and umbrella pines that look like fantasy broccoli forests, across broad plains of olive trees and scented Mediterranean brush, and up to shadowy woodlands and ancient, fortified hill towns.
Ash trees are about 4 percent of the state's forests, and 80 percent of the state's 45 million ash trees are found west of the Connecticut River.
About 25 km from Palomino, 30 minutes by bus, is the Quebrada Valencia park, where bamboo forests, enormous banyan trees and an impressive series of cascades provide shade from the oppressive heat.
Gibbons are at home in the high canopy of tropical forests, but they are relatively heavy and the gaps between trees are too large to travel by swinging alone.
Improvements in yield reduced the need to convert forests and other natural environments to farmland, which typically involves burning of trees and other plants, and which in turn produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
And in the case of the forests of south-western Nepal, the target is the trees.
Professor Enquist said the species that favoured such conditions were deciduous, canopy trees, and if the trend of drier conditions continued into the future then it would change the characteristics of tropical forests.
But the same government that once encouraged settlers to tear down forests is now requiring landowners to replant thousands of hectares with native trees or be denied access to credit and key markets.
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