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Pine Trees Low Intensity
1,600 wordsThe long leaf pine community, also known as a high pine community, occurs on well-drained soils and are well adapted to fires. They are found on the high ground in Florida where the soil can not contain the water and the sandy soil remains dry in between the rains. This community requires frequent, low-intensity fires, which occur every one to ten years, to open seed cones and allow the community to regenerate. The long leaf pine community is characterized by the presence of the long leaf pine t...
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Forest Management National Forest
574 wordsThe 11, 000 acres now known as the Tuskegee National Forest was originally a vast cotton field, home to sharecroppers. These sharecroppers planted cotton each year until the soil was no longer fit for yielding crops. This incidence caused the sharecroppers to relocate to Shorter, Alabama. This also allowed those same 11, 000 acres to be established as the Tuskegee National Forest. Much of the forest is a lone leaf pine ecosystem that contains plants such as blue stem grass, blueberries, yucca, a...
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Puerto Rican Puerto Rico
764 wordsStatus: Endangered throughout its range, Federal Register, March 11, 1967. The Puerto Rican parrot is bright green, about a foot in length, with red forehead, blue primary wing feathers, and flesh-colored bill and feet. This bird feeds chiefly on wild fruits, particularly the sierra palm (Pre storia montana), but may also consume flowers and tender shoots. During October, when other fruits are scarce, the tabonuco fruit (Dacryodes excelsa) becomes an important food item. Rodriguez-Vidal (1959) l...
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Forest Lands National Forest
702 wordsWhen National Forests are logged, valuable recreation, fishing, and hunting sites are destroyed. When National Forests are logged, municipalities, businesses, and domestic water users downstream must pay for filtering logging sediments out of water supplies. Economists found that logging imposes costs in the order of $ 1. 94 per ton on downstream water users in the Little Tennessee River basin. When National Forests are logged, increased flooding destroys prime farmland, washes out bridges and r...
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National Forest Environmentally Friendly
414 wordsConservation and Preservation Bridger Teton National Forest is rightfully considered by many people as national treasure, which needs to be protected. However, we need to understand the difference between national parks and national forests. The creation of national parks is meant to preserve the unique environmental balance in uninhibited areas that contain rare flora and fauna. This is why; there can be absolutely no mining or logging activity in American national parks. The Bridger Teton Nati...
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Billion Per Year National Forests
1,663 wordsBlanton Forest is the largest contiguous unprotected old-growth hardwood forest in the Eastern United States. The 6, 000 + acre design for the future Blanton Forest Nature Preserve includes 2, 350 acres of pristine old-growth wilderness including 200 + year-old trees and Watts Creek, a sanctuary for the endangered Blackside dace fish. It belongs to a type of diverse temperate forest class called "mixed mesophytic" that is considered called both "globally significant" and "critically endangered" ...
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Forest Service Clear Cutting
593 wordsSince World War 2, the Forest Service had gone through a major revolution that it included the need to be more efficient and cost-effective in production of timber as a crop from national forest lands. However, the increased effort of timber production clashed with environmental issues, the need for more recreation and wildlife viewing. In 1960, law with management of the national forests according to a philosophy of sustained yield and multiple use charged the Forest Service. This was the produ...
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National Park Service Theodore Roosevelt
1,232 wordsMoney Mongers Keep Them Away From Our Parks The presidency of Ronald Reagan might have only lasted two terms, but it appears that it will be a long time before its impact is no longer felt. Since the Reagan Era there is a political trend of shifting responsibility away from the government to so-called private interests. Adopting this position today is literally politically correct for a politician, whether or not the politician is a democrat or republican. This notion of private interests is a l...
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National Forest Black Hills
673 wordsHELENA, Mont. (AP) Beleaguered firefighters in Montana enjoyed something of a lull in their battle against dozens of wildfires, but a new blaze near Yellowstone National Park forced the evacuation of up to 150 homes. And a firestorm in a remote Idaho forest destroyed most of the buildings at a guest ranch, and another guest ranch was ordered evacuated. There were concerns the entire town of Red Lodge, a resort community near Yellowstone in south-central Montana, might have to be evacuated in the...
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Wildlife Habitat National Forest
3,391 wordsIts a promising tool, this idea of prescribed burning to devel forests and help restore ecosystem health. But its risky business, too, and smoke clouds public acceptance. I THOUGHT FIRE SEASON HAD ENDED. BUT THE SCENT OF PINE SMOKE IN MY NOSTRILS LATE LAST OCTOBER TOLD ME SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Deep in Oregon's ponderosa paradise on Wine National Forest, my wife Maurine and I had just finished flagging a new interpretive trail as Forest volunteers. As we drove a remote road just east of Crater Lak...
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Wildlife Habitat Clear Cutting
3,231 wordsThe Roadless Area Final Rule: Conservation or Preservation? In 1978, the United States Forest Service (USFS) began the management of roadless areas, i. e. , all areas greater than 5, 000 acres and without constructed roads, in a study called Roadless Area Review and Evaluation II (RARE II). The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability of these roadless areas for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. On October 13, 1999, twenty-one years later, President Clinton ...
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