Such timber from the forests of Oregon and Washington was sold in California and Mexico, even in China and Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Some economies depend on fishing for lobsters, rockfish or other creatures that need the forests.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

It said the forests and undergrowth were so dense, no one could get through them.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Many people come to see the butterflies in the forests of Mexico's Michoacan State.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

But now,Borges says, they face loggers, farmers and ranchers who seek to make money from cutting the forests down.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

But Borges says as preserving the forests becomes more valuable, conflicts could arise over who owns the rights to the carbon credits.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

She says the apparent explanation is that the mosquitoes that transmit malaria like the landscape that's left after the forests have been cleared.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Nick Cox,the WWF's Dry Forest and Tiger Program coordinator for the countries along Southeast Asia's Mekong River, says the forests of Cambodia's eastern plains offer an intact habitat for reviving wild tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The wide flat grasslands seemed strange to men who had lived among the hills and forests of the east.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

They have also provided forests for use by local communities and native peoples and for the protection of biological diversity.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

For example, areas with mangrove forests were not damaged as badly by the Indian Ocean tsunami in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

How I wished I had the power to enter that bright light and float with her through those beautiful forests.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

In time, Paul and Babe the Blue Ox left Maine, and moved west to look for work in other forests.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

In the ancient forests of the Lapland area of Finland, many people in the Sami native group make a living raising reindeer.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

There are places to stop along the road to look at the fields and forests down below and far in the distance.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

India's camels have lost the use of some traditional grasslands and forests because of development and climate change.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

In some areas there, monkeys play in the tops of mangroves thirty meters tall and dolphins swim in the waters of mangrove forests.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The American state of California is another area where long-spined sea urchins have been destroying kelp forests.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Deforestation is mainly caused by the cutting down of tropical forests to provide land for agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

And so it is very important for the poorer people to have very efficient stoves that protect their forests and that protect their health."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

South America and Africa had the highest yearly loss of forests during the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Indonesia is said to have lost almost half its mangroves forests within the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

His works include descriptions of deep forests,local flowers, and the ancient popular traditions of rural people.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Tradition says he cleared forests from the northeastern United States to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

It had bright green hills and deep forests where soft winds touched the trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Southern California has lost ninety percent of its watery forests since the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Most come from the treetops in wet tropical forests in Central and South America.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

The two countries had the highest loss of forests in the nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.06