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Forests cover about 14 % of the county, mainly around major waterways, and consist principally of deciduous hardwoods among which maple – beech and oak – hickory forests are the most common.
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Forests and cover
Forests cover about a third of the area, but also the lakes Maggiore and Lugano make up a considerable part of the total area.
Forests cover about 23 % of the county, or about, and consist principally of deciduous hardwoods among which maple – beech and oak – hickory forests are the most common.
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 of Greek Fir and Aleppo Pine cover all slopes beneath 1, 000 m altitude, and are often threatened by forest fires, such as occurred in 2005 and 2007.
United States National Forests and other forests cover about 83 percent of the basin ; another 6 percent is grassland, 3 percent shrub, and only 0. 2 percent wetland.
Forests cover approximately half of the area and timber production is one of the major contributors to the economy.
In addition, some opponents consider the term, " Clear Skies Initiative " ( similarly to the Healthy Forests Initiative ), to be an example of administration Orwellian Doublespeak, using environmentally friendly terminology as " cover " for a give-away to business interests.
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 and about
It is estimated that about 70,000 miles of forest highways will eventually be needed to fully serve the National Forests.
It is estimated that about 542,250 miles of forest development roads, and 80,000 miles of trails, constitute the system that will eventually be needed to obtain the maximum practicable yield and use of the wood, water, forage, and wildlife and recreation resources of the National Forests on a continuing basis.
Within exterior boundaries of National Forests and National Grasslands, there are about 40,000,000 acres in non-Federal ownership.
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.
Forests are also among the most significant assets of the oblast: about 20 % of the West Siberian forest resources are located in Tomsk Oblast.
It does not resemble most other National Forests in that it has numerous fairly large but non-contiguous sections scattered about most of the state of Nevada and a portion of eastern California.
Forests occupy about one third of the canton with about one quarter being considered unproductive ( mountains or glaciers ).
The State Forest Service changed its name to the New Zealand Forest Service in 1949 at about the same time that the Forests Act of 1949 passed through Parliament.
The Pomeranian town, which had a population of 13, 976 as of 2004, is located close to the Tuchola Forests about 7t0 km north of Bydgoszcz, and is the seat of Tuchola County.
The Waipoua, Warawara and Puketi Forests together contain about three quarters of New Zealand's remaining mature kauri trees.
It covered over six million acres ( 24, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of the Sierra Nevada and was about four times the average area of typical California National Forests.
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After Bokassa's creation of the Council for the Central African Revolution ( in imitation of Libya's government council ), Patassé was named a member of the Council of the Revolution with the rank of Prime Minister in charge of Posts and Communications, Tourism, Water, Forests, Hunting and Fishing, as well as Custodian of the Seats of State ( September 4, 1976 – December 14, 1976 ).
When the first Council of Government of Ubangi-Shari was established that same year, Boganda named Dacko Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Water and Forests, in which position he served from May 14, 1957 until August 23, 1958.
In 1851 under the Acts of Parliament 14 and 15 Vict Cap 42 it was replaced by the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings and the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues dividing between them the public and the commercial functions of the Crown lands.
CIFOR is a member of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests ( CPF ), a voluntary arrangement among 14 international organisations and secretariats with substantial programmes on forests.
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