Malte Iden, Forestry Commission recreation ranger at Kielder Water and Forest Park, said the ospreys' return had been met with "great enthusiasm" and he was "hopeful the chicks will soon be on their way".
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The Kielder Water and Forest Park Development Trust will use its grant for a six-month project focussing on the social and industrial heritage surrounding the viaduct, which was built in 1862 to carry the Border Counties Railway over the North Tyne River.
Wedged between Coniston and Esthwaite Water, Grizedale Forest is criss-crossed by hiking trails and biking routes.
It has built a steel fence around the woodland cottage resort at Muskoka that will receive the G8, and deployed special forces on overtime to lurk in the water and surrounding forest.
We often take these services for granted, such as the ability of the forest to filter water or produce oxygen.
At times it is as though they are playing games, hovering in the distance, then beside your ear for a moment, then gone again, evaporating like the water that nourishes this cloud forest and the town at its edge.
The rural 5-acre property surrounded by forest has a tenuous water supply from a well.
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The city uses parts of its water fees to maintain the surrounding forest and carry out thinning to suppress wildfires.
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Water authorities in Denver, for example, saw their filtration costs soar as forest fires in the surrounding watershed turned their clean water to goo.
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After the wide-open water of the estuary, the mangrove forest feels eerie and magical.
The village is essentially surrounded by virgin forest and has no well water and therefore is reliant on the Xingu River for drinking and cooking.
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Hundreds of acres of virgin forest will be inundated with water in order to build the reservoir to power the turbines that will generate electricity.
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It is doubtful whether Kenya's government is strong enough to save the Mau forest on which Nairobi depends for water and hydroelectric power.
Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.
Dr. THOMAS: In fact, you see the insect arriving from the forest and now jumping into the water, and then a huge worm emerging, and then the worm swim, searching for a sexual partner.
But now that it has surfaced, the owl could be a game-changer in the water war between the U.S. Forest Service and the Wild West city made famous by the 30-second gunfight at the O.
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At the Sariska Wildlife Preserve in India, there is thick forest, there's plenty of water and plenty to eat.
Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.
"We followed the footprints of a bear to reach the places where he has dug three- to four-feet trenches to find water, " says K Venkaiah, the divisional forest officer.
In the story, he catches sight of himself in the forest pool and becomes transfixed by the image the still water reflects back.
From the forest they find building materials, medicines, and fresh water.
The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.
For example: if a company somewhere in Africa chops down a forest to grow food destined for Europe, and that deforestation wrecks the water supply used by villagers, who's to blame - the Africans or the Europeans?
James Silvey, from the Trossachs Water Vole Project, said the voles now had an "established population" in the forest.
"The controls we had put in place were inadequate due to the unusually high rainfall, which resulted in surface water flowing onto a track that was being used by heavy machinery to extract timber from the forest, " added Mr Garson.
As sustainable development finance remains a critical concern for African economies, the African Development Bank has invested in a suite of creative financing and support instruments, such as the Congo Basin Forest Fund, ClimDev-Africa Fund, Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, African Water Facility, and Africa Carbon Support Program.
The water turns to spray before it reaches the foot of the mountain and provides moisture to the tropical forest.
Visitors to the Enchanted Forest spectacle at Faskally Woods will be presented with exhibits related to earth, wind, fire and water.
Mr. BOB SIVINSKI (Program Director, New Mexico Forest Legacy Program): This ranch also has some deep canyons where there's perennial live water, which is really important in this part of New Mexico because this is a very dry area.
Many tributaries running through the forest had dried up due to wide-spread clear-cutting and they said fertilizers were polluting the water.
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