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  2. Burke and Wills Dig Tree - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Hoe (tool) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Reforestation - Wikipedia

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    China committed to plant and conserve 70 billion trees by the year 2030 as part of the Trillion Tree Campaign. [80] The Jane Goodall Institute launched the Million Tree Project in Kulun Qi, Inner Mongolia to plant one million trees. [81] [82] China used 24 million hectares of new forest to offset 21% of Chinese fossil fuel emissions in 2000.

  5. Tree plantation - Wikipedia

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    A tree plantation, forest plantation, plantation forest, timber plantation or tree farm is a forest planted for high volume production of wood, usually by planting one type of tree as a monoculture forest. The term tree farm also is used to refer to tree nurseries and Christmas tree farms.

  6. List of phylogenetic tree visualization software - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Forestiere Underground Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Forestiere then began experimenting with growing trees in underground chambers with skylights, and found that with care they would grow well, and being below ground protected them from frost. Forestiere continued expanding and improving these underground gardens until his death in 1946, using hand tools and a pair of mules.

  8. Clearcutting - Wikipedia

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    Removing trees surrounding stream banks prevents shading of the water body, which raises the temperature of riverbanks and rivers. Because the trees no longer hold down the soil, riverbanks increasingly erode as sediment into the water, creating excess nutrients which exacerbate the changes in the river and create problems miles away, in the ...

  9. Tilia - Wikipedia

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    Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The tree is known as linden for the European species, and basswood for North American species. [1] [2] In Great Britain and Ireland they are commonly called lime trees, although they are not related to the citrus lime. The genus ...