Word: tamarisk
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There are still many gaps in scientific understanding of the complex desert ecology. But there has been no shortage of ideas for saving productive land. Using its oil wealth to good advantage, Saudi Arabia has planted some 10 million tamarisk, acacia and eucalyptus trees to help keep the dunes from overwhelming its al-Hasa oasis near Hofuf. Taking a cue from the cattle drives of the old American West, seven Sahel nations are involved in a scheme, dubbed Solar, that would allow nomads to continue to raise cattle on marginal Sahelian rangeland. But when it comes time for fattening before...
...TAMARISK TREE...
Even more telling is Dora Russell's The Tamarisk Tree. Although Dora has lived a full and active life during the 45 years since her divorce, the autobiography she published this fall ends at the point of Russell's departure. Sadly, the book reads like a prolonged apologia for the fact that Russell left her, as if that called her worth rather than his capacity to love into question...