Word: hardwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spraying during the last decade has been directed towards four different kinds of targets: mangrove forests, hardwood forests, strip spraying (along roads and canals) and crops...
Meselson said the objectives of the commission were to examine the inundated mangrove and hardwood forests that had been sprayed, look for medical side-effects among the South Vietnamese such as still births and birth defects, and examine the possibility of herbicides entering the food chain...
...more and more of the earth's bounty, troubling questions arise. Is it worth cutting the hardwood reserves of the Amazon River basin if the price is the destruction of the thin jungle soil? Should the oil under the North Sea be drilled at the risk of gravely endangering the beaches and wildlife of six nations? Can civilization's need for fuel and other materials be satisfied without despoiling the few wild areas left on earth...