Word: forest
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...Despite signaling they'll move for change, both Labor and the government still had their forest policies under wraps as the campaign entered its final week...
...argue over stands of E. regnans earmarked for woodchipping, and the Wilderness Society conducts tours along logging roads. Many timber workers pass through Niven's door, but in past months it's tourists who've been flocking to stay. They come, says Niven, "because they have to see the forest before it disappears." After this weekend, they may not have to be in such a rush...
...What has sprung up is less of an art movement than an extended family tree. You get a clear sense of this in the exhibition's central "courtyard," with its forest of mortuary log coffins and sapling-sized mimih sculptures. Visitors are advised to take a catalog, as you can get lost in this forest trying to connect the names. Start with the most mischievous of mimih by the late Crusoe Kuningbal, then jump to the mimih of his late wife Lena Kurinya, daughter Melba Gunjarrwanga and son Crusoe Kurddal. Next, leapfrog to the Lorrkkon logs of Ivan Namirrkki...
...year-old woman was assaulted just before midnight last Wednesday on Hillside Avenue in Mission Hill, according to the BPD. In a similar incident, a 23-year-old woman was attacked near the Forest Hills Orange Line station in Jamaica Plain around 9:45 p.m. on Sept...
...they did in the 1990s. In Alaska the annual mean air temperature has risen 4°F to 5°F in the past three decades--compared with an average of just under 1°F worldwide. As a result, the state's glaciers are melting; insects are destroying vast swaths of forest; and thawing permafrost is sinking roads, pipelines and homes. Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk 5% to 10%, at an accelerating rate. Says Weller: "There is natural variability, but the evidence is overwhelming that humanity has altered the climate...