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At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forestland, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuously closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous. This vegetation is variously called open taiga, open lichen woodland, and forest tundra.
The Tillamook or Nehalem peoples were a Coast Salishan-speaking group of tribes living roughly between Tillamook Head and Cape Meares on the northern Oregon Coast. The term 'Tillamook' itself is in fact an exonym, from the neighbouring Chinook-speaking Kathlamet people. Although the Tillamook language was a Coast Salish language, it was ...
The forest has long been known as the Monico Block for the small town in its center, and the land has been owned by a succession of companies, including Consolidated Papers, The Forestland Group ...
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. [1] Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. About 31% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests at present. [2]
There are boreal forests in Alaska. [ 4] Forests in Hawaii and the U.S. territories are tropical. [ 5] The most heavily forested regions of the U.S. are Maine, New Hampshire, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and West Virginia; the least heavily forested regions are North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
The United States Forest Service ( USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5] The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private Forestry ...
Private nonindustrial forest land. Private nonindustrial forest lands are forest lands in various countries, owned by private individuals or organizations that do not also own a wood processing facility. Nonindustrial private forests cover about 360 million acres in the United States, or roughly one-half of the nation's total forested acres. [1]
IMPACT, a volunteer group, has spurred improvements to the trail system and organizes events with college students from Alfred twice a year to prepare the trails for summer and winter use. IMPACT ...