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Borg Svemann, Woodworker
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Forests of cork trees, oaks and pines are your surroundings as you wind up and down the villages that have been preserved in time and tradition.
Temperate forests are composed mainly of deciduous trees.
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Brian Mengel, Civil Servant
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Forest Service officials argued the logging was necessary to remove trees killed by insects and disease and to reduce fire hazards.
The forests are never clear cut, but individual trees are selected for harvesting allowing for optimum slow growth renewal.
A forest management program has been instituted in order that growth and diversification of the trees on the property could be enhanced.
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Miles Rhodes, Wine Taster
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Tilbury's plentiful forests were stocked with white oak and elm trees which made the area prime for timber and woodworking industries.
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Bori Gonbutoren, Reindeer Herder
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Trees in the forest still bear the scars made by tribal aborigines when removing bark for canoes.
Forests are extensive land areas covered with trees and a forest community contains all the types of organisms inhabiting the area.
Forests were revered by the people and a large number of religious ceremonies centred on trees and plants.
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Arthur Dawkins, Astro-physicist
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Forest trees are part of the empirical data described here, understandably mainly papers that are published in general evolutionary literature.
Forests have been a major feature of planet Earth ever since trees evolved from smaller plants more than 300 million years ago.
Forests help prevent global warming because trees breathe in carbon dioxide.
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