Word: habitats
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...novel are seen through the scrim of the author's wrath. Long before terms like environment or ecology came into common use, the rich, fragile jungle of the Everglades was destroyed, its birds and beasts annihilated, its waterways choked. The men responsible might never have heard of the word habitat, but they knew what they were doing, and for some, at least, hardness was tinged with a mute regret...
Least Bell's vireo A bird that nests on the banks of Southern California streams, its listing in 1987 was fiercely opposed by local developers. The Marine base at Camp Pendleton has been designated a critical habitat for the vireo...
...nest in trees loggers prize, observers had expected Bush to stop the cutting. Government biologists had recommended adding 3 million acres of forest to existing preserves. Instead the Administration postponed until September any action on protecting land administered by the U.S. Forest Service -- about two-thirds of the owls' habitat -- and addressed only those forests controlled by the Bureau of Land Management. Even there, the Government proposed to reduce logging only 15% to 20%, far less than the scientists had wanted...
...ages. With an excruciating groan, all 190 ft. of trunk and green spire crash to earth. When the cloud of detritus and needles settles, the ancient forest of the Pacific Northwest has retreated one more step. Tree by tree, acre by acre, it falls, and with it vanishes the habitat of innumerable creatures. None among these creatures is more vulnerable than the northern spotted owl, a bird so docile it will descend from the safety of its lofty bough to take a mouse from the hand...
...grace and their attention to their young. He worries about their future, seemingly dependent as they are for both prey and nesting sites on old-growth forests. But Oliver and others have observed that it is not the age of the forest that appears to be critical to the habitat of the owl, but rather the structure and character of the forest. He and other biologists hope that one day they will be able to identify those key components and, by preserving them in reforested tracts, both widen the owls' habitat and open the way for a resumption of timbering...