He used to come here as a child 30 years ago and remembers mountains full of trees and grazing deer.
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The Lord's Acre appears to have remained an orchard and kitchen garden to the castle's occupants for around 350 years, and many of the fruit trees there date from between 1300 and 1600.
Within 15 years, upward of half a million birch trees have replanted on their own.
In 2010 the Welsh Assembly declared it wanted 100, 000 hectares (247, 000 acres) of trees planted over 20 years.
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Trees in the woods were descendants of the first trees to grow in Scotland after the glaciers receded thousands of years ago and support hundreds of other species, it added.
As a result, the majority of Connecticut's trees are over 60 years old.
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The annual festival, which celebrates Japan's friendship with the US, began 99 years ago when Japan gave the country thousands of cherry blossom trees as a gift.
Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.
Thus a recent U.N. report predicts that 98 percent of Indonesia's natural rainforest will be degraded or lost within the next 15 years, in large part because of the planting of palm trees for the production of the biofuel palm oil.
Carriers who spent years pounding the pavement relax under palm trees in a kind of mail carrier bliss: no ice to tumble on, no snow to slosh through, and best of all, no furry foes.
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Three years ago all it sold were log skidders to take trees out of the woods.
The authors praise the steps that Brazil has taken in recent years to curb deforestation, but they are concerned that the clearing of trees could now be on the rise once again.
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Over many years you would see seasons progress very predictably: the bare trees of winter, giving way to the green tinge of spring, the full leafing out of summer and the blazing colors of fall.
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As this initiative has been going since 2004, it's hard to see how it qualifies as "new" - nor, as it's planted seven million trees in those eight years, what guarantees the planting of another 93 million in just five years.
This kind of stone, he explains, is particularly good at conducting lightning and often sparks tremendous bush fires that feed on the flammable, oil-laden foliage of the eucalyptus trees and roar through the landscape every few years.
Instead, it leads us to a ghostly sight: the rusting chassis of a high-wing aircraft, crashed into the trees many years ago by some zoologists.
They will be planting 10 trees in the grounds of their school and over the next few years they hope to be able to sell their apples in the school and use them school meals.
Some of the trees that will be saved are more than 2, 000 years old and taller than 300 feet (91 metres), and they are among the very last sentinels of what was once a vast redwood forest.
The event at Carnegie Library pays homage to the original home of the cherry trees gifted to the U.S. more than 100 years ago.
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Users who have spent years on Family Tree Maker software, which has been around for 23 years, will be able to sync data from their PCs to the Web version of their family trees.
Within a few hours, he forgot that he had given the order, and in a few dozen years he in turn was forgotten, but these trees still stood, enormous now, some of them dead and looming without bark, white and leafless.
Newly planted trees, for instance, need several years to mature before they begin absorbing significant amounts of carbon dioxide.
For the first five years, while the trees get going, the farmers are being compensated with cash and a supply of grain.
In recent weeks Ms. Dunn has planted two Chinese Jujube trees on tricky cliffs flanking each side of the driveway, which in a few years will produce exotic date-like fruits.
The permafrost underneath those trees is melting, exposing deep layers of peat soil that has locked away carbon for thousands of years.
Two years ago, she began experimenting with unusual fruit trees and bushes, planting them along three terrace levels in front of her house.
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