Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

In the forest highway system, there are now 24,400 miles of public roads.

In the forest development road and trail system, there are now 162,400 miles of roads and 106,500 miles of supplemental foot and horse trails.

Most of the forests are evergreen, but there are areas of deciduous forest on North Andaman, Middle Andaman, Baratang and parts of South Andaman Island.

Animal species diversity was also significantly impacted: in one study, a Harvard biologist found 24 species of birds and 5 species of mammals in a sprayed forest, while in two adjacent sections of unsprayed forest there were 145 and 170 species of birds and 30 and 55 species of mammals.

The name Schwarzwald ( German for " Black Forest ") derives from the Romans who referred to the thickly forested mountains there as Silva Nigra ( Latin for " Black Forest ") because the dense growth of conifers in the forest blocked out most of the light inside the forest.

Situated 10 miles north of Gilsland and 13 miles west of Bellingham, the former grouse moor is now part of the Wark forest but there are areas still not covered by conifers where grouse can be found.

Recent examples of this trend include the conversion of all public transport in the city of Delhi from Diesel engines to CNG engines on the basis of the orders of the Delhi High Court ; the monitoring of forest use by the High Courts and the Supreme Court to ensure that there is no unjustified loss of forest cover ; and the directions mandating the disclosure of assets of electoral candidates for the Houses of Parliament and State Assembly.

Globalization is often viewed as another root cause of deforestation, though there are cases in which the impacts of globalization ( new flows of labor, capital, commodities, and ideas ) have promoted localized forest recovery.

From the perspective of the developing world, the benefits of forest as carbon sinks or biodiversity reserves go primarily to richer developed nations and there is insufficient compensation for these services.

In total there are 36 commodity cards: 12 paper ( from forest ), 12 cloth ( from pasture ), and 12 coin ( from mountains ).

In stanza 40 of the poem Völuspá, a völva divulges to Odin that, in the east, an old woman sat in the forest Járnviðr, " and bred there the broods of Fenrir.

Forests are differentiated from woodlands by the extent of canopy coverage: in a forest, the branches and the foliage of separate trees often meet or interlock, although there can be gaps of varying sizes within an area referred to as forest.

approximately 0 % ; there is a forest in Nanortalik municipality.

Although there are some forest parks within the city limits, the area surrounding Leipzig is relatively unforested.

Information is lacking from the first millennium AD following the Nok ascendancy, but by the 2nd millennium AD there was active trade from North Africa through the Sahara to the forest, with the people of the savanna acting as intermediaries in exchanges of various goods.

When asked about the exiled Duke Senior, the character of Charles says that he is " already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England.

In clearings in the forest and in areas with more boreal deciduous trees, there are more herbs and berries growing.

The very southernmost parts of the taiga may have trees such as oak, maple, elm, and tilia scattered among the conifers, and there is usually a gradual transition into a temperate mixed forest, such as the Eastern forest-boreal transition of eastern Canada.

The cold winters and short summers make the taiga a challenging biome for reptiles and amphibians, which depend on environmental conditions to regulate their body temperatures, and there are only a few species in the boreal forest.

At the time of the first settlelement there was still ancient forest, typical of the Harz, on the heights of the Klint, which had first to be cleared, hence the suffix-rode in the town name which means " clearing ".

He is driven back by his yearning to the wintry homeland of his fathers in the forest of Tiveden ''.

How we travel through the forest is for each man's conscience.

The total adverse impact of disease, insects, fire, weather, destructive animals, and other forces on the uses and values of forest resources is not generally recognized.

This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

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.

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.

The long-range objective of this Department is to provide and maintain a system of forest development roads and trails which will adequately service the National Forest System at the levels needed to meet expected needs and optimum production of products and services.

A stream which has all of its watershed within a national forest or other lands under good conservation practices is less likely to be affected by pollution than one passing through unrestricted logging or past an industrial area.

The mayhem in the forest of Kromy is a natural sequel.

A forest crop that has not been extensively cultivated is ivory nuts from the tagua palm.

The drier and more continental climate is beneficial for steppe-forests dominated by deciduous oaks, with areas of shrubland, montane forest, and valley forest.

One possible reason for this distribution is that the population preferred not to live in the forest except in troubled times.

The natural vegetation of the Andamans is tropical forest, with mangroves on the coast.

The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

South Africa is largely destitute of forest save in the lower valleys and coast regions.

The elephant ( though its range has become restricted through the attacks of hunters ) is found both in the savannas and forest regions, the latter being otherwise poor in large game, though the special habitat of the chimpanzee and gorilla.

So, a taiga or boreal forest is at the mercy of whatever abiotic stress factors may come along, while tropical zones are much less susceptible to such stressors.

The area is 14, 662. 8 hectares, which includes 42. 2 % ( 6, 186. 2 hectares ) agriculturally used area and 37. 7 % ( 5, 534. 9 hectares ) of forest.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

There is a small opening of the forest on the lower right hand corner that provides a rest for your eyes.

The human form is completely absorbed by the thickness of the forest.