For much of its history, the state's economy depended largely on harvesting its vast forests.
Some have vast forests and the benefit of science to tell them what lives there and what use it might be.
The Dayaks once lived a nomadic existence in the island's vast forests.
With large-scale agriculture all but gone from New England and logging companies concentrating their attention elsewhere, Kellett's biggest fear is that real estate development could begin to carve up the vast forests of Maine.
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Russia was allowed to argue that its vast forests soaked up at least 17 million metric tonnes of carbon a year, thus sparing it the need to reduce its use of coal and oil by that amount.
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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But, given the vast territory and forests the police need to cover, more forces are required, he said.
By making it easy to cut wood or other material, the saw allowed humans to build everything from simple shelters to vast skyscrapers, and to harvest forests.
As I stared out over the landscape I listened to stories about the mysterious forests that grow in the vast shadow of Mount Fuji, and about how people disappear in them.
But as studies detail plans for thousands of miles of new pipelines and related infrastructure, the dangers to biologically rich forests that have rebounded since vast clear-cutting in the 1800s are taking on new urgency.
Like many developing countries in tropical Africa, Latin America and Asia, Liberia possesses a vast wealth of biologically rich and globally important forests, despite its difficult economic circumstances.
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Environmentalists, long vexed by the destruction of Indonesia's primal forests and the damage done to its vast marine life, believe that the new government, desperate for foreign aid, will at last allow them to do something to stop the depredation.
This vast attrition will track with the loss of most coral reefs and equatorial belt forests.
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Just as old masters often depicted sages and poets as tiny figures amid mountains and forests, he saw current events and players as just one more element in his vast land.
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