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	Encyclopedia: Beech
		Beech (Fagus) is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America.
		The beech is one of the largest British trees, particularly on chalky or sandy soils, native in England fromYorkshire southwards, and planted in Scotland and Ireland.
		The beeches have distinctive smooth, silvery gray bark and pale green leaves that turn golden in autumn and are often winter-persistent.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Beech (1040 words)

	ATAC - Flora and Fauna of Patagonia
		Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) Lenga is unique to the sub-antarctic forests of Southern Argentina and Chile.
		Lenga grows at higher altitudes than the coihue, but when high in the mountains, it grows as a bush.
		Lenga reaches a height of 90 feet (30 meters) with a trunk diameter of 4.5 feet (1.5 meters).
	www.adventure-tours-south.com /flofau.htm (1992 words)

	Argentina - Nature - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At lower altitudes, the lenga is by far the taller species, but closer to the tree line, the two intermingle as dwarf shrubs in impenetrably dense thickets.
		The ñire, which rarely grows more than 15m tall, tends to be found close to water; and whereas in autumn both species turn a remarkable variety of hues, it is the ñire that has the most vibrant palette, with astonishing garnets, golden yellows, rusty oranges, and pinks the colour of rosehip jelly.
		Lenga and ñire are the only species that occur at all latitudes where you can find Patagonian Andean forest.
	www.hotelnear.com /4758/10817g/Argentina-Nature.html (3984 words)

	Bosque - 14(2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) is a semi shade tolerant tree.
		Since most of the lenga forests have grown to old and are deteriorating, one should now focus in initiation of their natural regeneration.
		Therefore the shelterwood method for natural regeneration of lenga is recommended fr the Patagonian Andes north of Buenos Aires lake.
	www.uach.cl /revistabosque/1993/fr_14_2_019023.htm (209 words)

	Arquetipo - Sillas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to research and due to its natural properties, lenga resources can be cut if they are properly used and provided they be sustainable.
		According to the German Association of Wood Importers, the lenga can be used as a substitute for cherry and walnut, American mahogany, as well as birch and ash.
		Lenga is known in many countries like "cherry tree from Tierra del Fuego" (a province of Argentina).
	www.arquetiposillas.com.ar /cod/arquetipo-ing/madera.htm (346 words)

	Changemakers Studio March 2002 - Page 8 - Gondwana Forests Under Threat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The trees are 85 percent lenga (above, nothofagus pumilio also known as Magallanes oak), and 15 percent coigue (southern beech, nothofagus betuliodes).
		Lenga trees can reach up to 120 feet in height and three feet in diameter on the best sites.
		Lenga trees' cherry-colored wood is naturally resistant to decay, so it is considered high enough quality for exterior and interior use.
	www.changemakers.net /studio/02march/chiappe8.cfm (658 words)

	The Patagonian Cordillera Forests \| Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Two species run the length of the forests, from the northernmost forests of Neuquen to Tierra del Fuego: the lenga (upland beech); and the nire (lowland or antarctic beech).
		The nire, which rarely grows more than 15m tall, tends to be found close to water; and whereas in autumn both species turn a remarkable variety of hues, it is the nire that has the most vibrant palette, with astonishing garnets, golden yellows, rusty oranges, and pinks the colour of rosehip jelly.
		Lenga and nire are the only species that occur at all latitudes where you can find Patagonian Andean forest.
	www.travelingo.org /south-america/argentina/guide/85432 (1176 words)

	Team Trev on Tour: 55° S
		We drove through magnificent snow-coated forests of ñire, the antarctice deciduous beech that is currently bright red in colour and about to drop its leaves.
		The ñire gave way to lenga (evergreen beech) forests in places, and together the two switched back and forth, depending on the local microclimate conditions - this was most evident on the hillsides.
		And towards the bottom of the hill, the lenga was replaced by a second unknown deciduous forest that was yellow in colour.
	teamtrev.blogspot.com /2005/04/55-s.html (479 words)

	Explora hotel Torres del Paine Chile Tours
		Attractions: Mature beech, forests, lakes, views of the enormous, deep blue Lago Toro, the emerald waters of Río Paine and the golden prairie of the Valle Río Serrano.
		An ancient lenga forest, and a spectacular panoramic view of the macizo from the eastern side, as well as Valle del Pingo.
		Lenga forests, lagoons, and finally Laguna Verde and an outstanding view of the macizo.
	www.chile-hotels.com /explotou.htm (1176 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lenga, Nothofagus pumilio, forest on Tierra del Fuego.
		Trillium had planned to mill moldings and furniture parts for export to the United States, Asia and Europe out of lenga, a tree similar to the beech that is native to southern Chile and Argentina.
		But logging plans for the lenga forests raised concerns among Chilean and international environmental groups, and while Chile conditionally approved Trillium's $200 million project, the company was not financially able to carry out its logging plans.
	ens-newswire.com /ens/sep2004/2004-09-15-01.asp (854 words)

	EPOW Ecology Picture of the Week -- Forest Fire at Treeline in the Andes
		A forest fire had recently occurred here, but notice how it burned and killed only particular swaths of trees (the southern beech trees called lenga and coihue) and left others unburned (the southern beech tree called nire), particularly higher up on the ridgeline.
		The answer is that various species of southern beech -- ancient trees of Gondwana heritage -- have different habitat associations and different levels of susceptibility to fire, and thus react differently to the presence of each other and to fire disturbances.
		But lenga might not be able to be as flexible, so nire might come to dominate and spread more widely.
	www.taos-telecommunity.org /epow/EPOW-Archive/archive_2005/EPOW-051107.htm (521 words)

	Profile of the Trillium Corporation
		Lenga Patagonia (the Argentinean name of the company) will exploit 500 hectares a year, but they also will have to purchase wood from the sawmills of the Chilean province across the Andes and also from the South zone of Chile.
		Lenga Patagonia has been in Tierra del Fuego (Argentinean side) for more than 3 years, after the experience in the Region of Magallanes (Chile), where they tried to exploit more than 200 thousand hectares of lenga.
		The land is dominated by vast stands of lenga, a native strain of the beech tree that is found nowhere else.
	www.endgame.org /trillium.html (8945 words)

	North Pacific Hardwood Species
		Beech is a hard, strong, heavy close-grained hardwood, white to reddish with some difference between sapwood and heartwood color.
		As a furniture wood, it is known for its bending qualities, finishes smooth and sands to a high polish.
		Beech is ideal for heavy-duty flooring, woodenware and handles.
	www.north-pacific.com /dept/hdwd_species/species.html (701 words)

	Cape Horn and the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego - Victory Adventure Travel - Patagonia, Chile
		Its lengas woods, ñires and cherry trees, its rivers, lakes and ‘turbales' frame amazing views of the channel.
		Chopping firewood from these beech forests is still a year-round task for many in Tierra del Fuego, where long winter months yield only 6 to 8 hours of daily sunlight and the temperature hovers around freezing.
		Beech forests rise up the mountains and whisper in the wind.
	www.victory-cruises.com /patagonian_news7.html (11908 words)

	Vance Publishing's W&WP magazine - Wood of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The beech-like rauli is used in many of the same applications as beech and often goes by the name Chilean beech or South American beech.
		Southern beeches can be found all across the hemisphere from Australia and Tasmania to New Caledonia and New Guinea.
		Myrtle beeches, also known as red myrtle and Tasmanian myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii), are similar to rauli, but the trees that grow in many of the same areas include coigue and roble.
	www.iswonline.com /wwp/wom/rauli.cfm?printPage=1& (837 words)

	Argentina - Glossary - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		LENGA Type of Nothofagus southern beech common in Patagonian forests.
		NOTHOFAGUS Genus of Patagonian trees commonly called southern beech (includes lenga and ñire q.v.).
		OMBÚ Large shade tree, originally from the Mesopotamic region and now associated with the pampa where it was introduced in the eighteenth century.
	www.hotelnear.com /4758/10822g/Argentina-Glossary.html (1732 words)

	TOUR GENERAL CARRERA LAKE AND THERMAL BATHS OF PUYUHUAPI - CHILE TOURS
		and lengas or lenga beech, with vantage points and snow and ice deposits, and the General Carrera, Bertrand and Plomo Lakes, where you will get a fantastic vista of the cordilleran spurs of Campos de Hielo Sur.
		An excursion going on a van for 20 kilometres, and then hiking in the midst of a mature forest of lengas for two hours, until we leave the vegetation behind and start walking on wastelands full of marine fossils and mountain flowers.
		A hike in the middle of the native forest of lengas and coiques of Mallín Colorado, with multiple possibilities to watch exotic birds, abundant native flora, and a splendid vista of the ice and snow deposits and the General Carrera, Bertrand and Plomo Lakes.
	www.enjoy-chile.org /tours-chile-tour/tour-comb-general-carrera-lake-thermal-baths-puyuhuapi.php (2034 words)

	Chilean Native Forests Dwindle
		OVERVIEW, SOURCE & COMMENTARY by EE The cool beech forests of Tierra del Fuego, Chile, are owned by a U.S. company, Trillium Corp, who plans to harvest these ancient beech trees.
		two species of beech known as lenga and coigue.
		Lenga, which can live more than 500 years, is valued for its deep pink
	forests.org /archive/samerica/childeba.htm (817 words)

	Argentina Destinations : Glaciers National Park
		The park also includes Lake Argentino, Lake Viedma, and the Fitz Roy mountain, where you can go climbing, and will also see abundant fauna and wildlife, including species that are endangered such as the pudú pudú, the southern river otter, and pumas, which are intensely pursued by local cattle raisers.
		Its forests consist of lenga, false beech, other trees of the northfagus family, and Cypress' from Guaitecas.
		At the highest peaks of the area it is possible to catch of glimpse of condors.
	argentina.gotolatin.com /eng/Attr/htm/Argentina-Los-Glaciares.asp (430 words)

	NFN - Gondwana Forest Sanctuary
		In South America, the forests occur in south-central Chile and in all of Patagonia, straddling both the Chilean and Argentinian side of the Andes from the 37th Parallel south to Tierra del Fuego.
		Three species of Nothofagus stretch down the Eastern Seaboard, commencing with the Antarctic beech (N. moorei), found in southern Queensland and sub tropical New South Wales, to the Myrtle beech (N. cunninghamii) in Victoria and Tasmania, and Australia's only decidous tree, the Tasmanian Deciduous beech (N. gunnii).
		These sub-antarctic forests are currently threatened by the $200 million Rio Condor logging project initiated by the U.S. based Trillium Corp. Composed of 360,000 hectares of ancient lenga forest (nothofagus pumilio), a wide-ranging, well-adapted deciduous southern beech tree, this boreal forest region is highly fragile.
	nativeforest.org /campaigns/gondwana (1219 words)

	ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 700m deep field gives birth to over 300 glaciers, most of them in Chile which due to the fjord nature of the coast are not so accessible.
		The stretch of land close by the Andes through which we pass receives the most precipitation in Patagonia, 500mm per year, the grass is much more lush and forests of beech grow on the hill side.
		We pick our way through short, densely growing lenga (beech trees) some of which have been infected by Indian Bread (Cyttaria Haroiti) fungus others have green balls of Chinese Lanterns, a parasitic growth like mistletoe.
	www.waymarker.co.uk /ml/patagonia/ca.htm (1346 words)

	Any Time Adventures Patagonia - Adventure Tourism
		It is a wide open valley high in the mountains on a river called the Pichileufu.surrounded by Beech forest and meadows.
		The vegetation is thicker with beech tree and bambus.
		Here we ride to the north west along the slopes of the Colorado trhough beach tree forest (lenga).
	www.anytimeadventurespatagonia.com /porqueingles.php (772 words)

	Chile Ski Guide : Cerro El Fraile Ski Center. Coyhaique, Aysen Region, Austral Road
		Situated in the austral zone at 1,600 meters above sea level, with an area of 550 hectares, this center is something special as you can ski between forests of various types of trees including pine and Antarctic beech.
		Only 29 kilometers to the south west of Coyhaique, it has two ski-lifts and 5 runs with "powder snow" ranging between 600 and 2,200 meters in length.
		Austral highway, View of the Simpson river and Castillo hills, forests of lenga and Antarctic beech.
	gochile.cl /eng/Guide/ChileSkiGuide/CerroElFraile/Cerro-El-Fraile.asp (427 words)

	Patagonia: Bariloche: Horseback Riding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cerro Campanario is a small, pointed mountain strategically situated among the lakes.
		The trail winds up fist through majestic beech woods (the native "coihue"), then circles round the hill so that fine views are obtained in turn of lakes Moreno, Trébol and Nahuel Huapi.
		There are woods of the majestic mountain beech (lenga).
	www.bariloche.org /sp/21/cabalg-e.html (442 words)

	Puerto Natales
		Here the road turns to gravel and dirt, and as there is lots of speeding traffic (mostly mini buses full of trekkers heading towards the park) the gravel is soft and the washboard vicious.
		The cave lies in a park that is about two km long and half a km wide, and the hill sides are riddled with smaller caves.
		There are meadows, bush thickets and Lenga (Southern Beech) groves.
	www.yip.org /~erhard/puerto.htm (1924 words)

	Commercial timbers - Nothofagus dombeyi (Mirb.) Oerst., Nothofagus spp. (Coigue, Rauli, Lenga) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heartwood basically red to brown (pinkish brown; Coigue and Lenga mostly lighter coloured than Rauli and Roble).
		Helical thickenings present (observed only in N. pumilio) or absent, in narrow and wide vessel elements, throughout the body of vessel elements.
		Average fibre length 800–1150–1560 µm (Rauli; Lenga: 650–685–730).
	delta-intkey.com /wood/english/www/fagnodom.htm (376 words)

	Argentina, Glossary guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NIRE Type of Nothofagus southern beech tree common in Patagonian forests.
		NOTHOFAGUS Genus of Patagonian trees commonly called southern beech (includes lenga and nire q.v.).
		OMBU Large shade tree, originally from the Mesopotamic region and now associated with the pampa where it was introduced in the eighteenth century.
	www.hotelsrates.net /argentina/pod_dep-c85480.html (1732 words)

	lenga - lenga (Notophagus pomilia, kind of beech) (Spanish to English translation glossary) Lumber,Forestry / Wood / ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lenga is found only in Chile and Argentina and is used AS A REPLACEMENT FOR BEECH, BIRCH ETC.
		Since it would be recognised internationally and to aid cross-reference, put the latin name in brackets after the spanish (this is common practice anyway).
		the genus Nothofagus is called 'southern beech' [you'll find plenty of refs i'm sure], it's a relic group of some 20+ tree species found only in southern hemisphere; this paticular species is conistently called in English 'lenga'.
	www.proz.com /kudoz/290500 (286 words)

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