Sentence examples for intensive logging from inspiring English sources

There are various reasons for this, including overfishing, intensive logging in years past and warming air and water temperatures.

Today the effects of almot 50 years of intensive logging in the publicly owned forests of the Pacific Northwest are clear.

Concern has been raised, however, about the pace of deforestation caused by the combination of shifting agriculture and intensive logging operations in East Malaysia.

Low-intensity selective logging may have little detrimental effect on biodiversity (Gibson et al. 2011); however intensive logging can reduce species diversity and exacerbate species loss (Sodhi et al. 2010).

The impacts of the South's intensive logging operations have been severe: Millions of acres of healthy, diverse, natural forests have been converted into degraded, low-diversity industrial pine plantations.

Staring back at him was a fledgling great gray owl with a 4-foot wingspan and piercing yellow eyes accented by facial discs, one of five owls in a recently discovered nest less than two miles from an area targeted for intensive logging.

The documentary style and chronological format of these works affected Thoreau's own Journal, which became an intensive log of his trips in Concord, Canada, and New England; these entries in turn became the basis for travel narratives: "An Excursion to Canada, Cape Codd, The Maine Woods.

The awarding of contracts for labour-intensive logging procedures such as thinning, to commercial enterprises, and the increase in performance/productivity of cable yarders, were crucial factors here.

Southwestern ponderosa pine forest ecosystems have become uncharacteristically dense as a result of intensive livestock grazing, logging, and fire exclusion, which have contributed to a buildup of fuels and increased vulnerability to high-severity, landscape-scale crown fires.

The emergent tree Agathis, while being more responsive to long-term rainfall variability in the past, did not reestablish itself following the years of intensive selective logging in the second part of the last century.

All comparisons of sustainable forest management practices versus intensive commercial logging operations should be making space for this data.