Forests account for about 30 % of the area.

Forests account for 17. 6 %, and bodies of water and other types of land use occupy the rest.

Forests, often cut for timber, cover about 81 percent of the basin and farms account for 6 percent, while range, wetlands, water, and urban areas cover a combined 13 percent.

Forests account for three quarters of this national park's area, some of them being the best preserved and well-kept in Europe.

In 1960 one-quarter of the 92.5 million recreation visits to the National Forests and Grasslands were for the primary purpose of hunting and fishing.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

Both of these systems are essential for the production, development, and use of the National Forests.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

The U.S. Forest Service cares for hundreds of thousands of campers in its 149 National Forests and is increasing its facilities steadily.

In 1847 he left Prague for the professorship of mathematics, physics, and mechanics at the Academy of Mines and Forests in Schemnitz ( Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia ), and in 1849 he moved to Vienna.

Forests support biodiversity, providing habitat for wildlife ; moreover, forests foster medicinal conservation.

Areas with ravines or forests, like Chambal, Chilapata Forests were once known for dacoits.

Serving previously as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government.

* Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests, and Landscap.

Hay's New Hampshire estate has been conserved as part of the John Hay National Wildlife Refuge, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests ' John Hay Land Studies Center, and the Garden Conservancy's Fells Reservation.

In the late 1960s, Potlatch Forests, Inc. ( a US company ), upgraded the harbour and airport at Asau on the northern coast of Savai ' i and established a timber operation, Samoa Forest Products, for harvesting tropical hardwoods.

Thomas Lovejoy has also supported the Forests Now Declaration, which calls for new market-based mechanisms to protect tropical forests.

Operations of Experimental Forests and Ranges are directed by local research teams for the individual sites, by Research Stations for the regions in which they are located, and at the level of the Forest Service.

* Eastern: based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Eastern Region ( R9 ) covers twenty states ( Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey ), seventeen National Forests, one Grassland and America ’ s Outdoors Center for Conservation, Recreation, and Resources.

There was a period in the mid 1960's when U. S. Forest Service policy in California's National Forests for the California black oak was systematic extermination by girdling the trees.

Corneille ’ s father secured two magisterial posts for him with the Rouen department of Forests and Rivers.

* Tropical Montane Cloud Forests – Science for Conservation and Management ( L. A. Bruijnzeel, F. N.

In 1985, she was elected to the Cabinet of John Cain's Labor government and became Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands.

Forests alternate with savanna, and much of the land has been cleared for cultivation.

* Forests can also be classified more specifically based on the climate and the dominant tree species present, resulting in numerous different forest types ( e. g., ponderosa pine / Douglas-fir forest ).

there are 80 Experimental Forests and Ranges that have been established progressively since 1908 ; many sites are more than 50 years old.

Grant County contains most of the Malheur National Forest and sections of the Wallowa – Whitman, Umatilla and Ochoco National Forests, and has more than of federally-designated Wilderness Areas.

Forests cover approximately 11. 700 km of the isthmus, more than three-fourths of its total square.

Some Sierra Club members have urged the Club to be more forceful in advocating for the protection of National Forests and other federally owned public lands.

In Oregon, where there are more logging projects on public land ( National Forests and BLM lands ), tree sitting is usually not trespassing but tree sitters can be fined for violating closure orders or camping limits, or for erecting illegal structures.

Forests cover more than half the area of the state, and provide remarkable biodiversity for a relatively small state and also a source of livelihood for many tribes.

Forests, mountains, coasts and islands where there are more than 200 varieties of orchids ; more than 400 species of birds, besides mammals, reptiles and insects.

As London grew following the advent of the railways, Chelsea began to become congested, and in 1842 the Commission of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues recommended the building of an embankment at Chelsea to free new land for development, and proposed the building of a new bridge downstream of Battersea Bridge and the replacement of Battersea Bridge with a more modern structure.

The Frank Church — River of No Return Wilderness is located in six different National Forests plus a relatively tiny portion of land of the Bureau of Land Management, more components than any other wilderness.

According to James Greer's book Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll the advance for the record was close to a hundred thousand dollars, one of the more expensive deals in Matador's history.

Forests whose burning is to be managed, usually have their ground fuels and forest structure modified beforehand, so that wildland fire burning can be more as it used to be.

Forests cover more than half of the province's area.

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

* Cox, Thomas R. The Lumberman's Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests ( Oregon State University Press, 2010 ); 560 pages ; examines successive frontier regions prized for lumber rather than farming, beginning with northern New England in the 17th century

A policy of preservation, rather than co-usage as in the National Forests, where grazing, farming and logging are licensed, was implemented four decades later during the presidential administration of Teddy Roosevelt, and Yosemite became a national park.

National Grasslands are generally much smaller than National Forests.

Forests of Canary Island Pine ( Pinus canariensis ) occur from, covering the middle slopes of the volcano, and having an alpine timberline lower than that of continental mountains of similar latitude.

Today many of the Eastern National Forests are primarily second-growth forests and different in character than National Forests in the West created from huge forest reserves of largely virgin forest.

By the 16th century, areas of land reserved for breeding and hunting of game were of three kinds, according to their degree of enclosure and being subject to Forest Laws: Forests, large unenclosed areas of wilderness, Chases, which normally belonged to nobles, rather than the crown, and Parks, which were enclosed, and not subject to Forest Laws.

Forests have much larger roughness lengths than tundra, for example.

The LTBMU is a part of National Forest System Lands, yet is managed somewhat differently than other National Forests.