around cities and towns, and in other places where people can be expected to want the landscape to be protected. It was a highly centralized, regulation-based model, with no support from public preference studies or other evidence. Group Three forests are those where commercial exploitation is ...
Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the USlandscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.
Large aboveground structures of some species of ants and termites are long-lived features (more than a decade) of many arid and semiarid landscapes. These structures have been the focus of numerous studies that have documented effects on soil physical and chemical properties around the structures,...
The invention relates to a method for rapid cultivation of large-scale trees for landscape use, which comprises the following procedures, (1) cultivation of straight and single-stem saplings, which consists of trimming side buds on the side branches during culture period, leaving only top ...
Villages and cities grew into form and lay cradled in thelandscape. (5) In the long reaches below Radujeváç a widerlandscapemeets the eye. (20) They talked of thelandscape, and of the strange cloud effect before them. (9) She peered out around the side of the carry-all and scrutin...
trees in a pollinator friendly, diversity rich native landscape. In his best-selling book, “Bringing Nature Home”, Tallamy convincingly lays out the case for all native trees but concentrates on those that bring the most ‘bang for the buck’ when it comes to supporting caterpillars and a ...
The pattern of more small trees but fewer large trees held for most individual species as well, but with notable exceptions. Our comparison of burned and unburned plots strongly implicates fire suppression as a driver of increased density of small trees in low- to mid-elevation forests. However...
least as much compositional work as a still life, except you have to move your body instead of your subject. There are lots of ways to arrange the elements in your photo for the impact you want — the key is taking time to consider the field. And being prepared to walk around in it...
they mobilized large networks of urban planners, architects, city administrators, and engineers around the promise of urban decision-making infrastructures that would provide the basis for scientific planning and management. However, the effect of this novel assemblage on urban life was minimal: both ...
Beginning around 1640, Claude began to make hiscompositionsmore Classical and monumental. The influence of contemporary Bologneselandscape painting, particularly the works ofDomenichino, replaces that of Tassi and the northerners. During this decade something like a formula establishes itself: tall trees ...