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The natural forests in Afghanistan are mainly of two types: dense forests of oak, walnut, and other species of nuts that grow in the southeast, and on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Sulaiman ranges ; and sparsely distributed short trees and shrubs on all other slopes of the Hindu Kush.
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Under this program, property sales specialists in the Small Business Administration regional offices help small business concerns to locate Federal property for sale and insure that small firms have the opportunity to bid competitively for surplus personal and real property and certain natural resources, including timber from the national forests.
Other natural features which can be of high interest are the forests, canyons, mountains, deserts, seacoast, beaches, sand dunes, waterfalls, springs, etcetera with which the area is blessed.
The country's natural resources include: coal, iron, bauxite, manganese, forests, copper, chromium, lead, zinc and hydro power.
Chile has a great diversity of natural landscapes, from the Mars-like landscapes of the hyperarid Atacama Desert to the glacier-fed fjords of the Chilean Patagonia, passing by the winelands backdropped by the Andes of the Central Valley and the old-growth forests of the Lakes District.
Countries with high forest cover can be expected to be at early stages of the FT. GDP per capita captures the stage in a country ’ s economic development, which is linked to the pattern of natural resource use, including forests.
Paraguay was losing its natural semi humid forests in the country ’ s western regions at a rate of 15. 000 hectares at a randomly studied 2 month period in 2010, Paraguay ’ s parliament refused in 2009 to pass a law that would have stopped cutting of natural forests altogether.
Laws regarding resource conservation and management generally focus on a single resource, e. g., natural resources such as forests, mineral deposits or animal species, or more intangible resources such as especially scenic areas or sites of high archeological value, and provide guidelines for and limitations on the conservation, disturbance and use of those resources.
( Reiger ) This conservation movement also urged the establishment of state and national parks and forests, wildlife refuges, and national monuments intended to preserve noteworthy natural features.
They may also play an important role in alleviating pressure on natural forests for timber and fuelwood production.
There are also many natural factors that can cause changes in forests over time including forest fires, insects, diseases, weather, competition between species, etc.
However, human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests, have intensified the natural greenhouse effect, causing global warming.
Gorillas ' natural habitats cover tropical or subtropical forests in Africa.
Throughout the twentieth century, human exploitation, shifting agriculture, forest fires, and uncontrolled grazing denuded large areas of Iraq ’ s natural forests, which in 2005 were almost exclusively confined to the northeastern highlands.
The area contains many forests, rolling hills, and wetlands and even a natural spring.
The Shan Hills form, together with the Karen Hills, Dawna Range and Tenasserim Hills, a natural border with Thailand as well as the Kayah-Karen / Tenasserim moist forests ecoregion which is included in the Global 200 list of ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) as priorities for conservation.
caucasica ), widely distributed throughout Europe, and sometimes forming part of the natural vegetation of the forests.
Dominated by high peaks and rain forests in the interior, the island is known for the twin peaks of Gros Piton and Petit Piton on the southwestern coast, its soft sandy beaches, and its magnificent natural harbors.
Its tropical climate is moderated by southeast trade winds, and its natural resources include, hardwood forests, and fish.
European bison survived in a few natural forests in Europe but its numbers dwindled.
The regional forester has broad responsibility for coordinating activities among the various forests within the region, for providing overall leadership for regional natural resource and social programs, and for coordinated regional land use planning.
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Afghanistan is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, marble, gold, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semi-precious stones, and many rare earth elements.
In 2006, a U. S. Geological Survey estimated that Afghanistan has as much as of natural gas, of oil and condensate reserves.
Afghanistan will have its first oil refineries within the next three years, after which it will receive 70 % of the profits from the sale of the oil and natural gas.
The Sulaiman Mountains dominate the northeast corner and the Bolan Pass is a natural route into Afghanistan towards Kandahar.
The bridge, nearly 700 metres long and 11 metres across, straddles the Panj river which forms a natural border between the two countries, between the ports of Nizhny Panj on the Tajik side and Shir Khan Bandar in Afghanistan.
The $ 3 billion Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline proposal for a natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan into Pakistan is moving forward.
" Prisoners could be detained until the end of the natural conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline ( also known as Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India Pipeline, TAP or TAPI ) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank.
The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.
On 24 April 2008, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan signed a framework agreement to buy natural gas from Turkmenistan.
The initial capacity will be of natural gas per year of which will be provided to Afghanistan and to each Pakistan and India.
The Sulaiman Range, and the high plateau to the west of it, helps form a natural barrier against the humid winds that blow from the Indian Ocean, creating arid conditions across southern and central Afghanistan to the west and north.
Current struggles over Afghanistan can be viewed as an extension of the struggle over control over Southern Asia and its natural resources, as well as its strategic location in the middle of Eurasia.
The National Multi-sectoral Assessment of Kuchi in 2004, estimated that there are about 2. 4 million Kuchis in Afghanistan, with around 1. 5 million ( 60 %) remaining fully nomadic, and over 100, 000 have been displaced due to natural disasters such as flood and drought in the past few years.
By 2006-2007, Tearfund had teams working in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Liberia, Darfur, Indonesia, Pakistan and Kenya, caring for people affected by conflicts and natural disasters.
When droughts occur in Afghanistan, or the water in watersheds that support Lake Hāmūn is drawn down by other natural or human-induced reasons, the end result is a dry lake bed in Iran.
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The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.
In the field of the natural sciences, scientifically verified data are quite readily available and any discussion can be shortened with good results.
I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.
Virginia and Rachel talked to each other quietly now, as allies who are political rather than natural might in a war atmosphere.
These registries are sponsored by 18 national medical, dental, and veterinary societies and have as their mission the assembling of selected cases of interest to military medicine and of establishing through the mechanism of follow-up of living patients the natural history of various diseases of military-medical importance.
The new editions of topographic maps being made by the federal government are excellent for orienting yourself to the natural features of the site.
And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.
The natural anatomical and physiological defensive features of the upper respiratory tract, such as the turbinates of the nose and the cilia of the trachea and larger bronchi, are capable of impinging out the larger particles to which we are ordinarily exposed in our daily existence.
For the only time in the opera, words are not set according to their natural inflection ; ;
The elegiac tone is Hardy's natural tone of voice, and it is not surprising that the 1912 - 13 poems are consistently and unmistakably his.
-- The results of microanalysis of tektites ( natural glasses of unknown origin ) for gallium and germanium have shown that these glasses are probably produced from terrestrial ( or less likely from lunar ) matter by impact of a celestial body.
The grounds for the Church's position are Scriptural ( Old Testament ), the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church, the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries, the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural law.
Police said the boys are natural brothers and were adopted as small children by the Dresbachs.
`` The news of their experiments reaches the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates.
It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.
Nor can any man save himself by good works or by a commendable `` moral life '', although such works are the natural fruits and evidences of a saving faith already received and naturally expressing itself through such avenues.
The burden of Mr. Wesker's message is that people living close to the soil ( at least in England ) are not the happy, fine, strong, natural, earthy people city-bred intellectuals imagine.
It has controversially been argued by some evolutionary scientists such as E. O. Wilson that natural selection can act at the level of non-kin groups to produce adaptations that benefit a non-kin group even if these adaptions are detrimental at the individual level.
Focused in a positive light, Anthropology is one of the few places where humanities, social, and natural sciences are forced to confront one another.
The terms asphalt and bitumen are often used interchangeably to mean both natural and manufactured forms of the substance.
* the mummy type-where androids are made of " dead things " or " stiff, inanimate, natural material ", such as mummies, puppets, dolls and statues
Pseudocode, flowcharts and control tables are structured ways to express algorithms that avoid many of the ambiguities common in natural language statements.
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