El Yunque is composed of four different forest vegetation areas: Tabonuco Forest, Palo Colorado Forest, Sierra Palm Forest, and Dwarf Forest.

Tabonuco ( Dacryodes excelsa ) and gumbo limbo ( Bursera simaruba ) represent the economic, ethnobotanical, and ecological significance of the Burseraceae in the Western Hemisphere, while frankincense ( Boswellia carterii ) and myrrh ( Commiphora abyssinica ) represent the same in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Tabonuco trees are especially large on ridges, where they are firmly rooted in the rocky substrate and connected by root grafts with each other.

She must be cautious so as not to alert the scheming forest.

Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.

At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.

Seasonal drought intensifies in the Siwaliks hills consisting of poorly-consolidated, coarse, highly permeable sediments that do not retain water, so hillsides are covered with tropical scrub forest that is extremely drought-tolerant.

The lush primeval forest which once covered the eastern coastal plain, where the Amerindians built their first settlements during the Aceramic period, is gone forever, and so is a large portion of the ecosystem surrounding the coral reef just offshore.

Some portions of the forest still retain many very old oaks, especially in the portion known as the Dukeries, south of the town of Worksop, which was so called because it used to contain five ducal residences in proximity to one another.

" Nigger Head Mountain ", at Burnet, Texas, was so named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair.

The mission of the National Forest System is to protect and manage the forest lands so they best demonstrate the sustainable multiple-use management concept, using an ecological approach, to meet the diverse needs of people.

By 18 November, tanks were deemed essential, so engineers blasted tank routes through the forest.

Consider " Oh that I had a Thousand Voices " (" O daß ich tausend Zungen hätte ") by German, Johann Mentzer Verse 2: " Ye forest leaves so green and tender, that dance for joy in summer air …" or " O Day Full of Grace " (" Den signede Dag ") by Dane, Nikolai Grundtvig verse 3: " Yea were every tree endowed with speech and every leaflet singing …".

Sommer was especially infamous for hanging prisoners from trees with their wrists behind their backs in the " singing forest ", so named because of the screams which emanated from this wooded area.

* If we ignore isolated vertices, which will each be their own component of the minimum spanning forest, V ≤ E + 1, so log V is O ( log E ).

Time critic Richard Corliss called it a " noir with a touch so light, the film seems to float on the breeze like the Frisbee of a fedora sailing through the forest.

The King of Bhutan believed that it was improper for a Buddhist country to confine animals for religious and environmental reasons, so he ordered the closure of the mini-zoo and the release of the animals into the forest.

According to radio talk show host Glenn Sacks, investigators also speculated that Barton started the fire so she could be a hero for putting it out and saving the forest.

They do so, throwing Bassianus ' body into a pit, and dragging Lavinia deep into the forest before violently raping her.

Different trees shed their leaves at different times, so the forest as a whole looks green.

And although time with its gradual decaying processes is as destructive to nature's works as to man's, even so this edifice survives undamaged, despite being subjected to the pressure of so many tree-roots and the strain of bearing the weight of such a huge forest.

While woodlots often technically have closed canopies, they are so small that light penetration from the edge makes them ecologically closer to woodland than forest.

Though Merry tried to persuade him that the Old Forest would be nothing compared to meeting the Ringwraiths, Fatty was adamant, so the other Hobbits went into the forest with only the knowledge of Merry to aid them.

Carsten Niebuhr proposed that the name Rhea Silvia came from Rea, meaning guilty, and Silvia meaning of the forest and so assumed that Rhea Silvia was a generic name for the guilty woman of the forest, i. e. the woman who had been seduced there.

Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".

The biggest green area in Chojnów is small forest Park Piastowski ( Piast's Park ), named after the Polish Piast dynasty.

The recitation of Vaisampayana to Janamejaya is then recited again by a professional storyteller named Ugrasrava Sauti, many years later, to an assemblage of sages performing the 12 year long sacrifice for King Saunaka Kulapati in the Naimisha forest.

The Colorado forest, named for the large Colorado tree ( Cyrilla racemiflora ), begins above the tabonuco forest and extends up to about.

The relics were said to have been later rediscovered in the 9th century by a hermit named Pelagius, who after observing strange lights in a local forest went for help after the local bishop, Theodemar of Iria, in the west of Galicia.

The forest at the north west base of the mountain is named Aokigahara.

Originally the camp was named after the hill Ettersberg but it was later renamed to Buchenwald ( German for beech forest ).< ref > As Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 ) puts it, " in the beautifully wooded Grosser Ettersburg, as the region is resoundingly called.

Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

The Jewish National Fund dedicated to Bulgaria a forest in Israel, a garden named for King Boris, and a Bulgarian square in Jerusalem.

So named because it passes by seven of Grand Etang's mountain waterfalls, which are nestled in the emerald vegetation of the rain forest.

At the end of the Third Age, some Woses lived in the Drúadan forest ( named for them ) in Gondor, small in number but experienced in forest life.

According to the Geographical Dictionary of Poland published by Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, the city's predecessor was an early medieval Slavic settlement, the city website states it was named Lasogród (" forest castle "), whose inhabitants engaged in hunting, honey gathering, and later agriculture ; Lasogród lated developed into a defensive fort, the remains of which were destroyed in the 19th century during expansion of the city.

A species of Colombian tree frog, Dendropsophus stingi, was named after him in recognition of his " commitment and efforts to save the rain forest ".

Hati's mother is the giantess, not named but mentioned in Völuspá and Gylfaginning, who dwells to the east of Midgard in the forest of Járnviðr (" Ironwood ").

In one episode, a frog-like con-man named Wander McMooch temporarily tricks the Gorgs out of their “ castle ” hut so he can raze the forest to build a village.

Therefore large variety of euphemisms were used instead, including comparisons, human names and other anthropomorphic terms – e. g. snakes were likened to ropes or called brides, while wolf was named Juris or Ansis or referred to as man ( also brother or friend ) of the forest.

Much of its mountainous area is reserved as national forest, wilderness, state parks and other public areas ; these encompass most of the northern portion of the White Mountains, including all the named summits of the Presidential Range ( though one, Mt.

He originally named the bay Bahía de los Pinos, probably because of the forest of pine trees first encountered while rounding the peninsula at the southern end of the bay.

Once, a Brahmin rishi named Kindama and his wife were making love in the forest when Arjuna's father Pandu accidentally shot at them, mistaking them for deer.

Originally named Hervey Range by John Oxley in 1817, the area was reserved in 1897 as state forest because of its importance as a timber resource, and was designated a national park in 1995.