Word: covington
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...Shiites win first Iraqi election by huge margin. Sunnis and Kurds refuse to be part of a Shiite-dominated Iraq, civil war ensues, Iraq is split into 3 countries. Bush blames the Democrats, but loses the election anyway. Karl Spisak Covington...
After studying at Harvard College, Oxford and Harvard Law School, Koh worked as a law clerk and practiced at the Covington and Burling law firm and the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He then returned to New Haven and joined the faculty of Yale Law School...
...more detailed guide to what these forests originally looked like came from records kept by early foresters, who in 1909 established a series of experimental plots across the Southwest. Among these was an unlogged eight-acre plot in the Coconino that was set aside as a long-term control. Covington and his colleagues made 1876 the reference year for this plot--it was the year the last fire occurred--and then proceeded to reconstruct the way the forest had looked at the time. The difference between then and now, they found, was dramatic. In 1876 the plot boasted just more...
This was the plot that Covington's team experimentally thinned in 1993 and 1994, taking care to preserve all old-growth trees. The area now boasts some 60 trees an acre, and as individual trees, they seem far healthier than before. For one thing, the outer coating of their needles has increased in toughness, which helps discourage foliage-eating insects. For another, their nonwoody tissues are producing greater quantities of resin, which affords protection against bark beetles. Best of all, there is no longer any need for mechanical thinning, as low-intensity prescribed fires can safely...
Indeed, says Covington, thinning should not be viewed as a substitute for prescribed fire but as its prerequisite. Otherwise, the nation could spend as much as $700 an acre on it and, a decade or so later, wind up back where it started...