Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

The forest was open and freely welcoming, extending an enchanted hand.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

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.

Breakfast was at the Palace Hotel, luncheon was somewhere in the mountain forest, and dinner was either at Boulder Creek or at Santa Cruz.

Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka (= " birch forest "), referred originally to a small Polish village that was destroyed by the Germans to make way for the camp.

Having in mind the bad condition of the forest fund, and in particular the catastrophic wildfires which occurred in the summer of 2007, a citizen's initiative for afforestation was started in the Republic of Macedonia.

Furthermore, the persistent nature of dioxins, erosion caused by loss of protective tree cover, and loss of seeding forest stock, meant reforestation was difficult or impossible in many areas.

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.

She was often depicted in paintings and statues in a forest setting, carrying a bow and arrows, and accompanied by a deer.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

The Madeira Islands laurel forest was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.

The 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, often hailed as the first armed anti-fascist resistance unit in occupied Europe, was formed in Croatia, in the Brezovica forest near the town of Sisak.

The forest was planted in the 20th century and consists mostly of Eucalyptus, Palm and Pine trees.

China's Loess Plateau was cleared of forest millennia ago.

They believed flooding was linked to widespread forest clearing upstream.

For instance, the privilege of the Old Town (, ) was upgraded in 1343, while in 1393 it was granted an emporium privilege for grains, metals, and forest products.

The term was not endemic to Romance languages ( e. g. native words for " forest " in the Romance languages evolved out of the Latin word silva " forest, wood " ( English sylvan ); cf.

Much more forest land – about 40 percent of the total forest land base – is subject to varying degrees of protection through processes such as integrated land use planning or defined management areas such as certified forests ( Natural Resources Canada ).

The expropriations ( subject to modern legal dispute at the World Court ) included over 1, 600 km² ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of agricultural and forest land mostly in Moravia, also including several family castles and palaces.

The rainforest is subject to deforestation as a result of growing commercial demand for tropical timber ; forest clearance, especially in coastal areas, for plantations ; pollution from mining projects.

The expropriations ( subject to modern legal dispute at the World Court ) included over 1, 600 square kilometres ( 600 mi. ² ) of agricultural and forest land, also including several family castles and palaces.

Organizations such as the Forest Policy Education Network are dedicated to facilitating international forest politics and exchanging information on the subject.

Dry forest and woodland abut private land in many areas and as a consequence have been subject to clearing, modification and fragmentation.

One innovation was the introduction of the forest laws and the setting aside of large sections of England as royal forest subject to the newly introduced forest law.

Royal forests in the early medieval period were subject to special royal jurisdiction ; forest law was, as historian Robert Huscroft describes it, " harsh and arbitrary, a matter purely for the King's will " and forests were expected to supply the king with hunting grounds, raw materials, goods and money.

In the Middle Ages, because the village was in the Royal Forest of Galtres, its inhabitants were subject to forest law and took part in the occasional courts that devised and enforced it.

In the early modern era, Sandhurst parish was a small farming community on the very edge of Windsor Forest, Sandhurst Walke being an important forest division subject to forest laws.

As she matured, the subject matter of her painting shifted from aboriginal themes to landscapes, and in particular, forest scenes.

The story had as its subject an " attractive, well-bred young lady ", a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother's house successfully and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest.

Between these two escarpments the anticline has been subject to differential erosion so that geologically distinct areas of hills and vales lie in roughly concentric circles towards the centre ; these comprise the Greensand Ridge, most prominent on the north side of the Weald, where it includes Leith Hill, the highest hill in south-east England, the low-lying clay vales of the Low Weald, formed of less resistant Weald Clay, and finally the more highly resistant sandstones of the High Weald at the centre of the anticline, whose elevated forest ridge includes most notably Ashdown Forest.

All subspecies of the Spotted Owl are often the subject of disagreement between conservationists and loggers, cattle grazers, developers, and other organizations whose activities can affect forest conservation.

Legally, only the crown could have a forest, a subject could only have chases.

While it has been subject to some human modification, Barton's Bush still gives a good indication of the sort of lowland forest that the European settlers encountered when they first moved into the Hutt Valley.

Much of the natural forest in Sekong has never been subject to commercial logging, but this is changing fast.

Calverton was one of forty or so townships within the ancient bounds of Sherwood Forest and once subject to forest law, and it may be because of this that agricultural improvement and commercial development was different to other, more purely agricultural, settlements.

Some of the film like Madly Bangali, Antaheen have truly depicted the image of urban youths. Sekhar das on the other hand took interest in the rural sections of the country and made his first trilogy ' Mahulbanir Sereng ', Krantikaal ' and ' Kaler Rakhal ,' Mahulbanir Sereng ' has been highly popular for its novelty of the subject as it portrayed for the first time the lives in the Indian forest.

The forest was subject to a large forest fire in the late 1990s that destroyed several square kilometres of trees, and caused NZ $ 12 million ( US $ 7 million ) worth of damage.

* 1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn.

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.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

After the first ritual, the boys are allowed to venture out into the forest for hunting using bows and wood-made-arrows.

The new regiment at first lost several outlying garrisons but finally proved its mastery of forest warfare under Bouquet's leadership at the victory of Bushy Run.

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.

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.

Although the first arrivals were hunters and gatherers, early evidence shows that people managed the forest environment to provide food.

It is uncertain who developed it first, but these highly portable easels, with telescopic legs and built-in paint box and palette, made treks into the forest and up the hillsides less onerous.

The climate warmed up gradually, favoring the growth of evergreen trees first, and then deciduous forest which brought animals like aurochs.

* Transylvania was first referred to in a Medieval Latin document in 1075 as ultra silvam, meaning " beyond the forest " ( ultra (+ accusative ) meaning " beyond " or " on the far side of " and the accusative case of sylva ( sylvam ) meaning " wood or 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 ".

* August 14 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn.

His first wife, Olga, was shot on 11 September 1941 on Stalin's orders, in the Medvedev forest outside Oryol, together with Christian Rakovsky, Maria Spiridonova and 160 other prominent political prisoners.

The first two highways successfully opened up the rain forest and led to increased settlement and deforestation.

Buchenwald concentration camp ( German: Konzentrationslager ( KZ ) Buchenwald, ( eng: Beechwood forest )) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg ( Etter Mountain ) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.