The woods consist predominantly of larch, pine, and spruce conifers, with the remaining third mainly sycamore, beech and oak.

Recent years have seen outbreaks of insect pests in forest-destroying plagues: the spruce-bark beetle ( Dendroctonus rufipennis ) in Yukon and Alaska ; the mountain pine beetle in British Columbia ; the aspen-leaf miner ; the larch sawfly ; the spruce budworm ( Choristoneura fumiferana ); the spruce coneworm.

The study took place in the White River and Lussier River Watershed, southeastern British Columbia, in a forest dominated by Douglas-fir, white spruce, and western larch.

It is reputed to be the first place in Ireland that the British larch tree was planted.

In Siberia, the taiga is converting from predominantly needle-shedding larch trees to evergreen conifers in response to a warming climate.

" He proceeds to talk about the life of a lumberjack (" Leaping from tree to tree "), and lists various trees ( e. g. fir, larch, Scots pine, and others that don't actually exist ).

She had been buried over 2, 400 years ago in a casket fashioned from the hollowed-out trunk of a Siberian larch tree.

They were encased in coffins made from hollowed trunks of larch ( which may have had sacral significance ) and sometimes accompanied by sacrificed concubines and horses.

These were laid either on gritstone blocks from Cromford, laid diagonally, or on embankments, timber sleepers of oak or kyanised larch.

The chain ranges from temperate to sub-Arctic climate types, and the vegetative cover consequently ranges from tundra in the north to dense spruce and larch forests on the larger southern islands.

Wood pulp comes from softwood trees such as spruce, pine, fir, larch and hemlock, and hardwoods such as eucalyptus, aspen and birch.

Conifers include some Weymouth Pine dating from 1781, Norway spruce, douglas fir and larch.

Special Arctic design included the rounded lines of the ship's body below the water line, an additional belt of ice-floe resistant flush skin-planking ( made of oak or larch ) along the variable water-line, a false keel for on-ice portage ( and for damage prevention from running aground in shallow waters ), and the shaft-like upper part and wide lower part ( below water-line ) of the rudder.

The larch, derived from sustainable forests, requires no preservatives or coatings.

The scientific name of the genus honours Robert FitzRoy ; common names include alerce (" larch ", Spanish ), lahuán ( Spanish, from Mapuche Native American name lawal ), and Patagonian Cypress.

He had a keen interest in forestry, and was one of the first to grow larch from seed in Britain.

Tamarack Larch, or Tamarack, or Hackmatack, or American Larch ( Larix laricina ) is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia ; there is also a disjunct population in central Alaska.

A new stock was made from laminated larch and the sails were refitted.

View from the pine and larch woodland above the Morteratsch Glacier

European larch morphology features from book: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885, Gera, Germany.

The English name " Larch River " probably comes from the larch trees found in the sheltered valley of the river, which is, in less sheltered locations, as much as 400 kilometres beyond the northern limit of tree growth.

Other parts of the altarpiece are made from oak wood, and the background is constructed of larch wood.

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As such, Arthur became even more of a relatively minor character in these French prose romances ; in the Vulgate itself he only figures significantly in the Estoire de Merlin and the Mort Artu.

Family Affairs, which was broadcast opposite the racier Hollyoaks, never achieved significantly high viewing figures leading to several dramatic revamps of the cast and marked changes in style and even location over its run.

The figures for Kensington and Chelsea during 1991-1993 were significantly lower: 73. 0 years for males ( ranking 301st in the nation ) and 80. 0 for females ( ranking 129th ).

Thus, the Navajo Nation's census figures for Kayenta Chapter are significantly different from those of Kayenta proper.

But the two mines never came together ; in fact, Boswell's mine proved to be significantly less productive than Jerome's, as shown by documented production figures from 1927, for example.

Popular lines often have figures available exclusively through mail-in offers and comic conventions, which raises their value significantly.

Finally, the water cycle figures significantly in the maintenance of life and ecosystems on Earth.

During the 1990s and early 2000s he also noticed that tiger numbers were significantly lower than the official figures ; his insistence on using modern science in tiger conservation and uncompromising efforts to save tigers and their habitat have earned him many enemies.

The Posse's attendance figures were never very good to begin with, but significantly tailed off as the summer wore on.

From 1998 onwards, attendance figures at PK events were significantly smaller than they had been previously.

Others instead hold that there were human societies in the ancient period that were significantly technologically advanced, such as Atlantis, and this idea has been propagated by figures like Graham Hancock in his Fingerprints of the Gods ( 1995 ).

Most of his most famous subjects, such as Heath and Wilson, retired from public life or died and he was unable to master new prominent figures, most significantly, the country's first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher ( she was played on his show by Janet Brown ).

In truth, the viewing figures for the series had dropped significantly, and the original format had been watered down.

A measurement made using a plastic ruler that has been left out in the sun or a beaker that unbeknownst to the technician has a few glass beads at the bottom has the same number of significant figures as a significantly different measurement of the same physical object made using an unaltered ruler or beaker.

The reservoir typically falls to less than one-third capacity by March each year, but in normal years refills to at least two-thirds capacity before November, though Australia's highly unpredictable climatic conditions cause these figures to vary quite significantly from year to year.

The club has attracted a significantly lower set of attendance figures than the Manchester Storm did.

This produces figures significantly below earlier estimates but, as the author emphasizes, his calculations are by no means definitive.

This study is darker than the final work, and the positions of the figures differ significantly from those of the later painting.

This volume figure looks rather small at first glance, but production figures tend to be significantly smaller in the top luxury segment where this model competes.

Estimates of the output corresponding to scientific Research and Development suggest that an additional 4-9 % might be attributable to the sector if its definition is extended to include such activities, though the figures vary significantly between different countries.

He later lived for many years in Paris, a city that he calls " the heart of civilization " and that figures significantly in all his novels.

Even the 748 cc engine introduced in 1972 offered only a claimed power output of 35 bhp ( SAE ) and published fuel consumption figures also indicated a car significantly more frugal than similarly sized metal bodied contemporaries.

These figures should change significantly by the time of the 2011 Census however, due to large scale infill development along the mainline railway and in Pontprennau.