Sentence examples for silviculture from inspiring English sources

The problem, they said, was that the articles on the internet they had to read were too long and too hard.Brian Moore Easton, PennsylvaniaGerman roots in forestrySIR – Bagehot's reference (July 6th) to British silviculture practice being German is correct, but that is not the whole story.

The silviculture practised in Britain is essentially German.

The well-being of individual plants is the major concern of arboriculture, in contrast to such related fields as silviculture and agriculture, in which the major concern is the welfare of a large group of plants as a whole.

Silviculture is the branch of forestry concerned with the theory and practice of controlling forest establishment, composition, and growth.

In southern Australia, for example, declines in yield of 25 30 percent in second rotation radiata pine (Pinus radiata) plantations have been corrected by a number of means, including intensive silviculture (site preparation, weed control, fertilization) during the early stages, retention and management of forest debris (leaves, branches, etc).

The efficient practice of silviculture demands knowledge of such fields as ecology, plant physiology, entomology, and soil science and is concerned with the economic as well as the biologic aspects of forestry.

Some 28 years before Darwin unveiled On the Origin of Species (1859), Matthew published On Naval Timber and Arboriculture (1831), whose text was primarily concerned with the practices of silviculture (branch of forestry focused on the theory and practice of controlling forest establishment, composition, and growth) as they related to the construction of Royal Navy vessels.

Educated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., Marsh developed a successful law practice, but his wide-ranging mind led him into the study of classical literature, languages (he was fluent in 20 by the age of 30), and the applied sciences of silviculture and soil conservation.

Like forestry itself, silviculture is an applied science that rests ultimately upon the more fundamental natural and social sciences.

Protection of the stand against fire, insects, fungi, animals, and atmospheric disturbances is as much a part of silviculture as is harvesting, regenerating, and tending the forest crop.

Mr. Skinner, a geographer with the Forest Service at the Redding Silviculture Laboratory in Redding, Calif., and Dr. Steve Zack, a conservation scientist with the North American Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society, along with other Forest Service colleagues, are showing a reporter the results of an accidental experiment that still impresses them each time they visit it.