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  2. Tree spiking - Wikipedia

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    Tree spiking involves hammering a metal rod, nail or other material into a tree trunk, either inserting it at the base of the trunk where a logger might be expected to cut into the tree, or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood. Contact with the spike often damages saw blades, which can result in injuries, or ...

  3. ‘Serious threats’ prompt Department of Agriculture to ...

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    Spiking is a form of forest industry sabotage, according to TDF. The practice seeks a metal rod or other material hammered into a tree truck either near the base of a tree where a logger or ...

  4. Tracy Stone-Manning - Wikipedia

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    Tree spiking is a tactic used to deter logging by rendering a tree dangerous to cut, either by a lumberjack or in a sawmill, and is considered an act of eco-terrorism. At the friend's behest, Stone-Manning wrote an anonymous letter to federal officials, informing them of the tree spiking and warning that "a lot of people could get hurt" if ...

  5. Standard addition - Wikipedia

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    Standard addition involves adding known amounts of analyte to an unknown sample, a process known as spiking. By increasing the number of spikes, the analyst can extrapolate for the analyte concentration in the unknown that has not been spiked. [2] There are multiple approaches to the standard addition. The following section summarize each approach.

  6. Kino (botany) - Wikipedia

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    Copious flow of kino from a wound near the base of the trunk of a marri (Corymbia calophylla) Kino sap solidified inside damaged eucalyptus logKino is a botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus) and Pterocarpus, in reaction to mechanical damage, [1] and which can be tapped by incisions made in the ...

  7. Biden nominee linked to 1989 sabotage draws Republican ire - AOL

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    President Joe Biden’s nominee to oversee federal lands in the U.S. West is facing Republican pressure to withdraw over her ties to environmental activists convicted of spiking trees to sabotage ...

  8. Girdling - Wikipedia

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    Girdling prevents the tree from sending nutrients from its foliage to its roots, resulting in the death of the tree over time, and it can also prevent flow of nutrients in the other direction depending on how much of the xylem is removed. A branch completely girdled will fail; and, when the main trunk of a tree is girdled, the entire tree will ...

  9. Trunk (botany) - Wikipedia

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    In botany, the trunk (or bole) is the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, [1] which is an important feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species. The trunk is the most important part of the tree for timber production.