also misjudged just how devastating the disease could be and thought after the trees died they would regrow. Forty years later the population of American Chestnut was wiped out. Today‚ the American Chestnut Foundation is also working with the U.S. Forest Service to introduce a cross species in the Blue Ridge
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Characteristics of the species. 4. Importance and need for protection. 5. Steps being taken for its protection. Please illustrate your project with pictures and maps. Presentation: 4-6 pages ( A4 size). INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Find out how much forest land has been taken over for developmental activities and by encroachment since 1980. Take a print out of MS Excel table and a suitable graph and paste in the computer note book. PROJECT Science Chemistry Our Mother Earth is a complete dynamic entity
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agricultural technique which involves cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields. It is subsistence agriculture that typically uses little technology or other tools. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture‚ and of transhumance livestock herding.[1] Older English terms for slash-and-burn include assarting‚ swidden‚ and fire-fallow cultivation. Today the term "slash-and-burn" is mainly associated with tropical rain forests. Slash-and-burn techniques are used by between 200
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Running head: Advantages of retaining forest reserve Advantages of Retaining Forest Reserve in Cities International Islamic University Malaysia Abstract The research paper argues about the issue of development at Air Hitam forest reserve near Puchong. The arguments will elaborate about why forest reserve should be retained in cities to suit the current issue relating to this problem. This research was conducted through library research by using newspaper‚ journal‚ and internet articles
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and its Causes Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non rural use. Examples of deforestation consist of conversion of forestland to farms‚ ranches‚ or urban use. Between May 2000 and August 2006‚ Brazil lost nearly 150‚000 square kilometres of forest—an area bigger than Greece—and since 1970‚ more than 600‚000 square kilometres of the Amazon rainforest has been ruined. In quite a lot of tropical
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Modern-Day Plague Deforestation is clearing Earth’s forests on a massive scale‚ often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area‚ but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year. The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. Forests are cut down for many reasons‚ but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families.The biggest
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Iron‚ forest‚ farming‚ Fishing and so on. It is believed that natural resources development is one of the factors that help the country in some many areas like employment opportunities‚ economy and so on. The concept of resource is human centered concept. In order for something to be considered as resources‚ it must be perceived to have value by man. There are basically two types of natural resources: Biological resources and Non-Biological resources. The biological resources are forest; fishes
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Chapter 1 A pine plantation in the United States. Tree plantations are usually easily distinguished from natural forests by the trees being planted in straight lines. Introduction A plantation is a long artificially established forest‚ farm or estate‚ where crops are grown for sale‚ often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption. The term plantation is informal and not precisely defined
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these‚ several other minor minerals are available in different places. Forest and Wild Life About 87% of the entire state is covered by forests in Mizoram calculating a total coverage of around 18‚338 sq.km. 68% of the geographical area is dense forest whereas 20% is open forest. There are mainly three types of forests in Mizoram. They are Sub tropical forest‚ Semi-evergreen forests and Sub-montane tropical forests. Different flora and fauna can be found in Mizoram. Around 22 species of Bamboo
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treetops—depend on the health and survival of Central and South American tropical forests. They spend much of their lives in the canopy‚ snoozing and remaining hidden from predators. The animals live solitary lives and travel from tree to tree using canopy vines. Located in places such as Brazil and Panama‚ the six species of this strange and wonderful animal need healthy forests to survive. But tropical forests are some of the most vulnerable to deforestation. Loss of trees means animals are
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