Important Forest Trees And Their Uses ( Originally Published 1922 ) Of our native trees‚ the white pine is one of the best and most valuable. It is a tall straight tree that grows to a height of 100 to 150 feet. It produces wood that is light in weight and easy to work because it is so soft. At ‚one time there were extensive pine forests in the northeastern states. Many of the trees were very large‚ and occasionally one may still see pine stumps that are 5 to 6 feet in diameter. White pine made fine
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and critics. In a particular community the Ogun figure might be mistaken for something else in a neighbouring town. For example‚ the nature of Nigerian politics after independence influenced Wole Soyinka’s representation of Ogun. In A Dance of the Forest (1963)‚ Soyinka represents Ogun (Demoke) as an arrogant and obstinate god who anchors conflicts and riots. Thus‚ Ogun‚ the misinterpreted and arrogant god contrasts Sunnie Ododo’s presentation of Ogun as the god of justice in Hard Choice (2011). Ogun’s
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Leviathan’s timber trade‚ had been the death of my own seraph lover. For I have followed as a participant into the untimely holocaust of the Black Forest. I had been laboring long‚ restless hours due to the inability to sleep‚ and the extensive order of logs at last minute request. My master had specifically demanded timber from the infamous Black Forest‚ an ominous dungeon of ashened leaves that wailed and wretched as passersby stalked its premises. Myth speaks of my brethren‚ descendants of that
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INTRODUCTION Marryat was a royal navy officer who helped Great Britain to extend her empire. He was a writer who lived in the Victorian era. In his The Children of the New Forest‚ he refers to the bloody civil war that his country had back in the seventeenth century. At the time of the civil war in Great Britain‚ Cromwell and his side called the Levellers who were mostly members of the middle-class revolted against King Charles I and dethroned the King of England. Marryat who was a member of the
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WWII (The Battle of Stalingrad‚ 2016). One reason for this is that it stopped the German advances into Eastern Europe and Russia. After the battle‚ they won no decisive battles‚ and the Soviet army had the control‚ with the German’s in retreat (Significance – The Battle of Stalingrad‚ 2015). The Soviets began to regain the land they lost to the Germans. Everything the German’s gained in their other successful offensives in Russia had all been lost and their 6th Army was no more (Battle of Stalingrad
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Forest Fire: Causes and Effects Ron Hilton National American University One morning you wake up and look out the window. Off to the west‚ you see an orange glow over the hills. You ask yourself “Is that a forest fire? What caused it? What is it going to do to the ecosystem?” The answer to the first question comes down to two main causes‚ man and nature. According to the U.S. Fire Administration (2000)
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agriculture for their livelihood. Nepal is rich in forests. % of the total land is covered with forest. Majority of the rural households are subsistence farmers and rely heavily on forest products to meet their daily requirements. Fuel wood is used for cooking and heating purposes‚ fodder and grass for livestock‚ leaf litter for manure‚ and timber for constructing houses and for making agricultural implements. Poor people are more benefitted from forests products as they are not able to afford for alternative
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behaved or is it because their parents just don’t love them anymore? After they all have settled into this new place‚ they are separated yet again and put into new families. Never are these children explained to what is happening. In “The Thing in the Forest”‚ Primrose and
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The two main settings in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare are the Forest and Athens. The defining factor that differs the two settings is the amount of chaos that ensues in each realm. In Athens‚ “Theseus represents order‚ law‚ and logical reasoning” (Seker 3). These virtues are shared by the rest of Athens. Contrasting that‚ the Forest has no rules or boundaries and characters can act however they please. This absence of rules allows for the characters to make immoral
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Writing Assignment Resource Management Policy The National Forest Management Act (NFMA) of 1976 is a federal law that reorganized‚ expanded and amended the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974‚ which called for the management of renewable resources on national forest lands. The National Forest Management Act requires the Secretary of Agriculture to assess forest lands‚ develop a management program based on multiple-use‚ sustained-yield principles‚ and implement a resource
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