Word: boreal
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...Bush Administration had hoped to make deforestation a showcase issue going into Rio. The presummit discussions opened with a U.S.-inspired proposal for an outright ban on logging in tropical forests. But the developing countries retaliated by demanding that the language cover temperate and boreal (northern) forests as well. The move was clearly aimed at the U.S., which has strenuously resisted any scrutiny of the logging practices in publicly owned ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest...
From Bylot Island to Washington was but a flap as the Greater Snow Goose, when not molting, flies. There the U.S. Department of State appeared to be grounded between flying seasons. What molted the State Department was a boreal wind from France, where EDC was being plucked. What next? The State Department didn't know. It had based its hopes so thoroughly on EDC that it had hardly allowed itself to think of a course to follow if EDC should fail. There had been an assumption that EDC might be replaced by a U.S. policy of rearming West Germany...
Emphasizing "geographic landscape," Raisz says that "it is more important to know that a region is tropical forest and not desert than that it is 1000 or 2000 feet above sea level--thus, in this atlas, field is distinguished from forest, savanna from desort, tundra from boreal forest. The characteristics of mountains are indicated, cultivated land is shown and omitted are the couniless names of small places. Not to exclude the absence of gay colors showing where countries are--for who can know where the boundary line of the future will...
...last week the commission had decided "what is right and good." To Paraguay the map makers awarded the lion's share of the area. Paraguay will get about three-quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal, an area about the size of Missouri. Generally regarded as impassable swamp in winter and dry-as-dust desert in summer, the Chaco has long been held by Paraguay to be potentially a land of cattle raising, wheat and cotton growing...
...Gran Chaco (Great Chaco), bestriding the Pilcomayo River before it meets the Paraguay River, is in Argentina as well as Bolivia and Paraguay. El Chaco Boreal (Northern Chaco) is wholly north of the Pilcomayo River, has concerned only Bolivia and Paraguay...