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  2. Krummholz - Wikipedia

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    Krummholz Pinus albicaulis in Wenatchee National Forest Wind-sculpted krummholz trees, Ona Beach, Oregon. Krummholz (German: krumm, "crooked, bent, twisted" and Holz, "wood") — also called knieholz ("knee timber") — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in the subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds.

  3. Post-fire hillslope stabilization treatments - Wikipedia

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    Counteracting the effect of fire on specific soil properties involved in the runoff and erosion processes: treatments that seek for offsetting fire effects on soils such as enhanced soil water repellency (surfactants) or decreased soil aggregation (flocculants). These products can be applied alone or combined with other stabilization treatments ...

  4. South Florida pine flatwoods - Wikipedia

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    Appearing savanna-like, [5] these flatwoods have open canopies of slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa) above a dense understory of low shrubs and grasses in places where low-intensity fires are frequent. Where fires have been suppressed, slash pine, shrubs, and saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) become more dense. [1]

  5. Sawdust - Wikipedia

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    Sawdust made with hand saw Ogatan, Japanese charcoal briquettes made from sawdust Sawdust vendors in Kashgar markets. Sawdust (or wood dust) is a by-product or waste product of woodworking operations such as sawing, sanding, milling and routing. It is composed of very small chips of wood.

  6. Health impacts of sawdust - Wikipedia

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    Exhaust the saw through the bottom of the table. Provide LEV under the blade slot. To decrease the open area between the table and the lower hood, attach a strip of flexible material to the machinery that will cover this area when the hood operates. [3] For increased dust control, add a local exhaust hood above the top of the saw blade.

  7. Wood preservation - Wikipedia

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    Untreated southern pine posts lasted 2 years in this test site." [ 9 ] The AWPA M4 Standard for the care of preservative-treated wood products, reads, "The appropriateness of the preservation system for field treatment shall be determined by the type of preservative originally used to protect the product and the availability of a field ...

  8. Pine-pine gall rust - Wikipedia

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    Pine-pine gall rust, also known as western gall rust, is a fungal disease of pine trees. It is caused by Endocronartium harknessii (asexual name is Peridermium harknessii ), an autoecious , endocyclic , rust fungus that grows in the vascular cambium of the host. [ 1 ]

  9. Flatwoods - Wikipedia

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    Flatwoods are an ecosystem maintained by wildfire or prescribed fire and are dominated by longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), and slash pine (Pinus elliotii) in the tree canopy and saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), gallberry (Ilex glabra) and other flammable evergreen shrubs in the understory, along with a high diversity of herb species.