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Living on Earth: Early Signs (Special Series)
Reporter Kate Davidson spent time with scientists and local farmers in Tanzania to look at the combined effect of tree-cutting and climate change in this installment of the series Early Signs: Reports from a Warming Planet. PART VIII Over a relatively short time, understanding the Earth's climate history has become one of the most happening areas ...
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March 5, 2002: Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing
Africa's remaining tropical moist forests. If political stability returns, tree cutting could increase several fold in the next few years, accelerating what could be the ... Switzerland, and Cambridge, UK: World Conservation Union-IUCN, 2000). John Tuxill, "Death in the Family Tree," World Watch, September/October 1997, pp. 13-21. Carel P. van Schaik, "Securing a Future ...
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Environmental Effects of Whole-Tree Timber Harvesting
Environmental Effects of Whole-Tree Timber Harvesting This is a brief description of studies that exemplify the methods and approaches that have been developed and used by Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ... T. Swank, L. M. Tritton, and D. H. Van Lear. 1988. Effects of whole-tree and stem-only clear-cutting on postharvest hydrologic losses, nutrient capital, and site productivity. Forest Science 34(2 ...
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Tree Preservation Makes "Cents"
Arborist, and owner of Urban Forestry Resources, an arboricultural consulting practice dedicated to managing tree health, safety, and value. For more information on protecting trees during construction, call (512) 263 ...
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Richard St. Barbe Baker in 1920's Africa
He never hesitated in his work – he had an abiding love and respect ... of the crucial role trees held in the ecosystem. The Men of the Trees grew to advance tree conservation in one hundred and eight countries. While in England in 1924, Richard encountered the Bahá’í ...
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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
Partly as a result, flooding of the Yangtze River basin that year displaced 120 million people and caused $30 billion worth of damage. In response, Chinese officials banned tree cutting in the upper reaches of the basin. Trees standing, they argued, were worth three times as much as trees cut. The ...
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Mike's Gulch logging
Contact: Paul Hughes, executive director: (415) 974-4201; paul@forestsforever.org Marc Lecard, communications manager: (415) 974-4202; marc@forestsforever.org Mike’s Gulch roadless logging put on hold Timber company agrees to delay tree cutting in disputed forest Silver Creek Logging Co., the Oregon timber company awarded the contract to log Mike’s Gulch, inside a ...
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Heritage Tree Act returns
The Heritage Tree Act protects trees on all nonfederal forestlands in the state. This includes land owned by ... to global warming). This bill would only affect trees harvested commercially for timber, and allows for cutting heritage trees for carefully defined reasons, such as for firebreaks or for safety. It does ...
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Database entry for Hevea brasiliensis - Rubber Tree
Common name Botanical name Ethnic uses Conditions Actions PLANT IMAGES Photos WEB RESOURCES Rubber Tree Product Search Medline Abstracts U.S. Patents Ethnobotany DB W3TROPICOS DB GRIN DB USDA BARC ... "Hevea brasiliensis is the source of virtually all the world's rubber production. Cutting the bark of this tree releases the latex which is then collected, preserved, and stabilized. The latex ...
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Tree felled
Ministry is not considering taking any action against the environmental group or whoever cut down the tree, he said. We just hope it doesnt happen again. Although the site where the cedar was cut ... , said BC Forest Service Officer Dave Kraby. He doesnt believe the tree cutting could be considered an unauthorized harvest of a tree. FHA Executive Director Roy Howard defended the groups move to put up ...
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