Mature conifers and dense plantations are avoided, although young conifer plantations with thick undergrowth are suitable for nesting.
In practice, such labeling would be meaningless, because unless one ventured into the plantations, in thick forests several hours by truck and foot, it would be impossible to know who was employing children supplied by traffickers.
Now those young tree plantations are thick with uniform growth — perfect wildfire fuel.
It is the gateway to a beautiful coast lined with thick tropical forest, rubber tree plantations and little fishing villages, and it is fringed for its entire length with deserted beaches.
The trail had just left a teak plantation and entered thick forest when we heard it.
Locals say that one hardy species manages to survive in the tea-colored water, thick with runoff from the plantation and contaminated, they claim, with fertilizer and pesticides.
Other possibilities include conversion of cropland into grassland, fertilization of pastureland and forest management practices designed to increase carbon stocks -- for example, lengthening the period between harvests of a forest's timber, or promoting faster tree growth and thicker stands of trees, plantation-style.
Forming battle lines in a field not far from Chantilly Plantation, the 21st watched the 51st New York advance into thick woods to probe the enemy lines.
Large parts of Kalimantan and Sumatra — as well as neighboring Singapore and Malaysia — have been blanketed with a thick haze caused by slash-and-burn techniques used to clear land for plantations.
My father worked on my grandfather's rubber-tree plantation, and sometimes he would take me with him and show me the thick, white rubber milk that is extracted from the trees to produce natural rubber.
