In 2005, the Bush administration, which favors more logging and development on federal land, issued a revised set of rules that, like the new ones, also broadened the power of forest managers.
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However, a linear model on a stand basis has a limited predictive power of forest stand successional stages (adjusted R2 = 0.5435 using the Tasseled Cap indices from all four images used in this study) due to significant variations in remote sensing signals for stands at the same successional stage.
Ironically, Belo Monte is a project shaped by the lessons of the past, drawn and redrawn to cull the power of the forests without razing them.
Kikuko Nishide, who runs a small museum near Ise Jingu, said she hoped G7 leaders would "experience the power of the forests and the shrine buildings and get a proper feel for Shinto and the spirit of the Japanese people".
"The power of the forest is as much a part of rustic furniture as the joints and seating," Mr. Mack said.
Masakazu Natsuda's "Wooden Music" (2008), the curtain raiser, was inspired by the primeval power of the forest, and used only wooden items — mostly blocks, sticks and flat surfaces that were both rubbed and struck.
During the second world war, 220 Italian prisoners were kept here, but nature has now reclaimed the area and, 65 years on, little is visible – testament to the power of the forest.
Contrasts abounded during a brief tour of the city, where 88,000 people fled as flames and smoke advanced on May 3. The power of the forest fire, which continued to grow on Monday as it swept through the hub of Alberta's oil sands region, is unmistakable.
And planting new trees, while important, does not replace the carbon sequestration power of ancient complex forests and the wood debris below.
