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The Burke and Wills Dig Tree on the banks of Cooper's Creek is associated with explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills.The tree was one of two trees blazed on 21 April 1861 by William Brahe and party who had remained at Cooper's Creek while Burke, Wills, Charles Gray and John King forged ahead to the northern coast of Australia. [2]
The hoedad, hoedag or hodag is a hoe-like tool used to plant trees. [13] According to Hartzell (1987, p. 29), "The hoedag [was] originally called skindvic hoe ... Hans Rasmussen, legendary contractor and timber farm owner, is credited with having invented the curved, convex, round-nosed hoedag blade which is widely used today" (emphasis added).
An interactive viewer for large phylogenetic trees and networks: All [22] DensiTree A viewer capable of viewing multiple overlaid trees. All [23] FigTree: Simple Java tree viewer able to read newick and nexus tree files. Can be used to color branches and produce vector artwork. All [24] JEvTrace
Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) [2] are a subset of NTFP; they exclude woodfuel and wood charcoal. Both NWFP and NTFP include wild foods. Worldwide, around 1 billion people depend to some extent on wild foods such as wild meat, edible insects, edible plant products, mushrooms and fish, which often contain high levels of key micronutrients. [4]
The Trillion Tree Campaign is a project which aims to plant one trillion trees worldwide. [1] It seeks to repopulate the world's trees and combat climate change as a nature-based solution . The project was launched at PlantAhead 2018 in Monaco by Plant-for-the-Planet .
Large homogeneous areas of one species of tree are more susceptible of pest attacks. This is due to an abundant and predictable amount of food for the pest, and an absence of their natural enemies. There are less predator species in monocultures because the plants they need to forage, rest and lay eggs on are not there.
The plant is also found in parts of the U.S., including California, Arizona, Texas, Hawaii, and Florida. [25] Leucaena leucocephala wood and bark. It grows quickly and forms dense thickets that crowd out all native vegetation. [26] In urban areas, it is an especially unwanted species, growing along arid roadsides, in carparks, and on abandoned ...
There he promoted Plant-for-the-Planet and recruited children all around the world to promise to plant 1 million trees in each of their own countries. Plant-for-the-Planet promotes the view that each tree is a contribution towards environmental and climate protection. It also suggests that each tree planting is an action for social justice.