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TREE: The Benefits of tree planting in Irrigation areas.

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View my complete profile. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The Benefits of tree planting in Irrigation areas. Trees were once seen as a hindrance to agricultural production and development, particularly in intensive irrigation areas. It was felt that they occupied productive land, competed with crops and pastures for moisture, as well as making machinery operation more difficult. This has resulted in the clearing of most of the areas of native forest in farming areas in Australia. This document, the first in a s...

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TREE: The importance of trees.

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View my complete profile. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The importance of trees. Trees are of continued importance to the environment. Tropical rain forests have of particular significance; although they now occupy less than 6 per cent of the land surface of the earth they probable sustain more than half of the biological species on the planet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Agriculture and Food : News for All Audiences. USDA Agricultural Research Service. The Times of India. The Crashing Waves Desktop.

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TREE: Tree planting.

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View my complete profile. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Is the process of transplanting. Purposes. It differs from the transplantation of larger trees. And from the lower cost but slower and less reliable distribution of tree seeds. The activity is known as reforestation. Or afforestation, depending on whether the area being planted has or has not recently been forested. It involves planting seedlings over an area of land where the forest. Industry's answer to the large-scale destruction of old growth forests.

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TREE: Advantages of tree.

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View my complete profile. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. 1 Trees prevent or reduce soil erosion and water pollution. Help recharge ground. Water and sustain stream flow. In Tsunami affected areas, green belts create the. Following condition in near by villages:. 8226; Reduce seawater incursion. 8226; Recharge the under water table. 8226; Prevent soil erosion at times of floods and heavy rain. 8226; Act as a wind barrier at times of cyclones. Times of disasters like Tsunami. That grows, about 1.5 tons of CO...

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Everybody Laughs at Broder: George Will as Epicenter of Fairness Doctrine Paranoia

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Everybody Laughs at Broder. And Fred Hiatt, and Richard Cohen, and George Will, and Robert J. Samuelson, and the rest of the WaPo editorial and op-ed timewasters. Friday, November 14, 2008. George Will as Epicenter of Fairness Doctrine Paranoia. People ( Steve Benen. Keep wondering where the recent wingnut fixation with the Fairness Doctrine comes from. The answer is, it seems to come from George Will, with an assist from Charles Krauthammer. George Will, August 17:. George Will, September 18:. Subscribe...

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Facts & other stubborn things: February 2015

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Friday, February 27, 2015. John Taylor has one of the weirdest applications of Friedman's plucking model that I've ever seen. The weirdest application of Friedman's plucking model I've ever seen. Friedman did not show deep recessions can't have slow recoveries, he showed that the magnitude of the recovery is correlated with the magnitude of the crash and not vice versa (which is an argument against "cycle theories" where the reverse is true). Thursday, February 26, 2015. At Bob's blog I asked commenter S...

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Billy Rubin's Blog: November 2013

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Where a spiritual descendant of Sir William Osler and Abbie Hoffman holds forth on issues of medicine, media and politics. Mostly. Friday, November 29, 2013. The "Hunger Games" Critique, Sequel Edition. It's not just me: about a year and a half ago the Billy Rubin Blog posted a cranky essay complaining that "The Hunger Games", whatever its cinematic merits, should not have been given a PG-13 rating. With which we entirely agree. It even includes a link to a medical journal! Finds that depictions of gun v...

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Billy Rubin's Blog: July 2013

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Where a spiritual descendant of Sir William Osler and Abbie Hoffman holds forth on issues of medicine, media and politics. Mostly. Thursday, July 25, 2013. Stoopid Questions About Health: NYT Edition. Teachers insist that there is no such thing as a stupid question. I would beg to differ. Exhibit A is yesterday's New York Times. As it goes on to discuss (possibly) slightly higher rates of abnormal heart rhythms in these über-fit marathoners compared to the general population. The answer is no. Are much m...

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Unfashionably Economic: Obesity: Class Warfare, Imperfect Information... or both?

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Blogging about law, technology, social media, and various bits of economics. Navigate to : Home. Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Obesity: Class Warfare, Imperfect Information. or both? Saw this on CNN today: Poor and fat: The real class war. By LZ Granderson. Some figures from the article:. In fact, the five poorest states are also among the 10 fattest, and eight of the 10 poorest states are also among the 10 with the lowest life expectancy. Leads to more healthcare spending and even lower incomes). Looking a...