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.

He extended Roman territory to the sea, founding the port of Ostia, establishing salt-works around the port, and taking the Silva Maesia, an area of coastal forest north of the Tiber, from the Veientes.

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 majority of Southeast Alaska's area is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States ' largest national forest.

In addition to the expected kinds of wildlife to be found in a European forest area, the following types of animals may be observed in the Black Forest.

This area of tropical forest has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Cameroonian Highlands forests ecoregion with Mount Cameroon considered separately because as an active volcano it has a distinct environment from the other mountains.

The native laurel forest species are in wet area only in mountainous areas.

There are 22. 9 million hectares ( 56. 5 million acres ) of forest ( 37 percent of the total land area ), but only 3. 4 million hectares ( 8. 4 million acres ) of dense forest, all in the south in the regions bordering the DRC.

The only forest left completely untouched in Côte d ' Ivoire is Taï National Park ( Parc National de Taï ), a area in the country's far southwest that is home to over 150 endemic species and many other endangered species such as the Pygmy Hippopotamus and 11 species of monkeys.

* Catchment area: 2, 033 km² ( 37. 1 % natural forest, 58 % active agricultural )

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

As a result, these first releases were followed by further distributions across much of the region, although their effectiveness on other crops, such as cabbages, has been questioned ; when the toads were released at Wau, the cabbages provided insufficient shelter and the toads rapidly left the immediate area for the superior shelter offered by the forest.

A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

The London-based Rainforest Foundation notes that " the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10 % actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests.

For example, while burning an area of fairly thick forest and thus turning it into a more open, grassy environment might reduce the viability of a large browser ( an animal that eats leaves and shoots rather than grasses ), the reverse could also be true: removing the browsing animals ( by eating them, or by any other means ) within a few years produces a very thick undergrowth which, when a fire eventually starts through natural causes ( as fires tend to do every few hundred years ), burns with greater than usual ferocity.

Of this area 10 % is water, 69 % forest, 8 % cultivated land and 13 % other.

A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees.

Uses of the word " forest " in English to denote any uninhabited area of non-enclosure are now considered archaic.

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.

Delegates agreed on principles for the financing of a fund to help the poorest nations cope with the effects of climate change and they approved a mechanism to incorporate forest protection into the efforts of the international community to combat climate change.

develop of systems for managing and restoring forests, range lands, and watersheds ; investigate the workings of forest and stream ecosystems ; characterize plant and animal communities ; observe and interpret long-term environmental change and many other themes.

At present forest history is the area of environmental history in which the most important scholarly debate is underway in India, with special interest in questions of water, air, industry, and climate change At the grass root level are organizing mass movements with the theme of Think Globally – Act locally for conservation of nature since 1993 by Vijaypal baghel, peoples are called him ecoman, greenman etc.

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires.

Agriculture and forest leaders are also trying to understand how the climate change legislation will affect what they do.

Simon Lewis, a climate expert at the University of Leeds, who led the study, said: " Tropical forest trees are absorbing about 18 % of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere each year from burning fossil fuels, substantially buffering the rate of change.

Bibbulmun track where it crosses the upper reaches of the Canning River ( Western Australia ) | Canning River The route has been changed twice, partly due to it passing through a significant section of forest that was at risk to change from either forestry, bauxite mining or dieback.

The Kentucky Senate passed a resolution in 1966 urging the Forest Service to change the name to ' Daniel Boone National Forest ', and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a proclamation so renaming the forest in 1966.

Ten years of clearing forest for fields, hard work and hard drinking — and Simeoni ’ s delirium tremens — eventually make them change their ways.

In recent decades, significant climate warming has resulted in changes in the structure of the ancient forests on the upper slopes, with a change over from birch to more pine, and a thickening of the forest canopy.

However, a recent case described a savanna increasing its range at the expense of forest in response to climate variation, and potential exists for similar rapid, dramatic shifts in vegetation distribution as a result of global climate change, particularly at ecotones such as savannas so often represent.

The outcome of the operation of the two loops, one bringing about ecological change and the other social and economic change, is an expanding and intensifying agricultural system, the conversion of forest to grassland, a population growing at an increasing rate and expanding geographically and a society that is increasing in complexity and stratification.

In conjunction with the increase in seedling species, due to the disappearance of the red ground crab, this results in holes in the canopy and a change in rain forest structure.

* Dominion, by john h. eickert is a novel set in Africa where a witchdoctor uses his ability to change into rahtetu ( the Bantu word for lion man ) to safeguard an ancient forest.

The drastic change in forest habitat cause by logging and tree retention drastically effects the quality of nesting sites and is detrimental to the red-naped sapsuckers habitat.

For example, students earn credit as political interns at the Oregon State Capitol, across the street from campus ; study the effects of climate change at the nearby research forest ; or conduct epidemiology surveys for the local health department.

Fourthly, forest encroachments change forest cover into cultivated land ; for example, the rising price of coffee in 1998 has been encouraging people in Sumatra to replace the forest with coffee plantation.

He presented a paper in 1906 that called for the forest sector to consider conversion to the metric measurement system, a change that would not come to fruition in Canada until the 1980s.

Exposure problems may occur in these forest areas where uneven lighting results from shafts of sunlight filtering through the overhead branches.

Another dilemma: As picturesque as a sylvan pond in the forest may be, trees offer a leaf and root hazard to the well-being of a pool.

For instance, a site adjoining other publicly owned lands, such as a national forest or a public road, may be desirable, whereas a site next to an industrial plant might not.

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.

Indoor cultivation may be set up using hydroponics, while outdoor cultivation may be done using permaculture, forest gardening, no-till farming, and do nothing farming.

The large ears are to sharpen hearing, and the distinctive coloration may help bongos identify one another in their dark forest habitats.

Under some conditions, forests and peat bogs may become sources of CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, such as when a forest is flooded by the construction of a hydroelectric dam.

The god may have symbolised the fecundity of the stag-inhabited forest.

The forest may have little impact on flooding in the case of large rainfall events, which overwhelm the storage capacity of forest soil if the soils are at or close to saturation.

A country may reach very low levels of forest cover before it stabilizes, or it might through good policies be able to “ bridge ” the forest transition.

Some have argued that deforestation trends may follow a Kuznets curve, which if true would nonetheless fail to eliminate the risk of irreversible loss of non-economic forest values ( for example, the extinction of species ).

African elephants have traditionally been classified as a single species comprising two distinct subspecies, namely the savanna elephant ( Loxodonta africana africana ) and the forest elephant ( Loxodonta africana cyclotis ), but recent DNA analysis suggests that these may actually constitute distinct species.

As with cities, depending on various cultural definitions, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have different classifications according to how and of what the forest is composed.

# Thorn forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, below altitude, in which the canopy is mainly composed of deciduous trees with thorns and succulent phanerophytes with thorns may be frequent.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

In Radcliffe ’ s The Romance of the Forest, one may follow the female protagonist, Adeline, through the forest, hidden passages and abbey dungeons, “ without exclaiming, ‘ How these antique towers and vacant courts / chill the suspended soul, till expectation wears the cast of fear !”