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	Tree
		Trees are important components of the natural landscape and significant elements in landscaping.
		As a tree grows, it creates growth rings, which can be counted in temperate climates to determine the age of the tree, and used to date cores or even lumber taken from trees in the past, using the science of dendrochronology.
		Trees occur in many diverse families of plants, and thus show a wide variety of leaf types and shapes, bark, flowers, fruit, etc. The earliest trees were probably tree ferns, which grew in vast forests.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/t/tr/tree.html (630 words)

	About money tree
		Tree in Chile.jpg consists of xylem cells, and bark is primarily made of phloem.
		For examples: most palm trees are not branched, the saguaro cactus of North America has no functional leaves, tree ferns do not have bark, etc. Based on their rough shape and size, all of these are nonetheless generally regarded as trees.
		A small group of trees growing together is called a grove or copse, and a landscape covered by a large area of trees is called a forest.
	www.money-make.net /money-tree.htm (848 words)

	Trees - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Trees
		Of the eight tule trees in this locality, the one known as El Arbol del Tule (pictured) is the oldest and largest, with a circumference of about 54 m/177 ft. The tule trees are a unique natural monument; however, the lack of subterranean water and the increasing urbanization of the area seriously threatens their future.
		This group includes trees such as oak, beech, ash, chestnut, lime, and maple, and they are often referred to as broad-leaved trees because their leaves are broader than those of conifers, such as pine and spruce.
		In temperate regions angiosperm trees are mostly deciduous (that is, they lose their leaves in winter), but in the tropics most angiosperm trees are evergreen.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Trees (699 words)

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		Trees are important components of the natural landscape due to their prevention of erosion and significant elements in landscaping and agriculture, both for their aesthetic appeal and their orchard crops (such as apples).
		The earliest trees were tree ferns and horsetails, which grew in vast forests in the Carboniferous Period; tree ferns still survive, but the only surviving horsetails are not of tree form.
		For example, most palm trees are not branched, the saguaro cactus of North America has no functional leaves, tree ferns do not produce bark, etc. Based on their general shape and size, all of these are nonetheless generally regarded as trees.
	www.skeletalmuscles.net /muscles.php?title=Tree (2118 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Caribbean - Unique and Threated Biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Caribbean is also a center of amphibian endemism, with all of the roughly 170 native species of amphibians from four families of frogs (the Bufonidae, Dendrobatidae, Hylidae, and Leptodactylidae) endemic to the hotspot.
		The Caribbean Islands have more than 160 species of freshwater fish, about 65 of which are endemic to one or a few islands, and many of these to just a single lake or springhead.
		The Green-throated Carib (Eulampis holosericeus) is endemic to the Caribbean Islands Hotspot.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/caribbean/biodiversity.xml (1317 words)

	94.05.04: Climate and Ecology
		This unusual shaped tree is three trees fused together, producing a growth that is wider 30 feet up in the air than it is at ground level.
		Useful landmarks such as trees on the horizon or clouds in the sky can help tremendously in locating the hawks, which are usually seen as small specks in the sky by experienced hawk watch observers.
		Locate the large tree or cloud with the naked eye, put binoculars up to the eyes and find the reference point, then move the appropriate direction and distance to where the bird is believed to be.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1994/5/94.05.04.x.html (8016 words)

	World Prout Assembly: Contai Basin Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These varieties of trees will create an artificial forest which will function as a natural wall to keep the powerful cyclonic winds and the destructive force of nature from wreaking havoc in the region.
		In the Contai Basin there are numerous natural resources which can be the basis for various large-scale, medium-scale and small-scale industries in the planned development of the area.
		If the pine trees are planted close together, the pores of the leaves will attract the rain clouds, and as a result there will be a profound beneficial change in the climate of the region.
	www.worldproutassembly.org /archives/2006/05/contai_basin_pl_2.html (3117 words)

	PalmBeachPost.com: Before the Storm - How to prepare your yard for a hurricane
		Trees trimmed by a professional arborist are far less likely to go down in a storm.
		If trees are too tall for you to reach, hire a tree trimmer.
		Ficus trees are not meant for residential yards.
	www.palmbeachpost.com /storm/content/storm/getready/before/trees.html (509 words)

	SOUTHERN CARIBBEAN PORTS OF CALL
		The azure Grand Etang Lake and nature reserve in the center of the island is situated in the crater of an extinct volcano.
		This Caribbean Island reminiscent of the South Pacific, is part of a two-island independent state along with Nevis, also known as Saint Christopher and Nevis.
		But it is their differences that add to the charm of this Caribbean hideaway and makes for some of the most delightful cuisine known throughout the world.
	www.galatravel.net /southern_caribbean_ports_of_call.htm (3449 words)

	World Water Assessment Programme \| Case Studies \| Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand
		The division of the basin into prosperous north and south and poor middle is reflected in socio-economic conditions.
		Over 90% of the area of the Basin is either used for agriculture or covered with forest, with the proportions of these land uses being roughly equal.
		Groundwater consumption is more acute during the dry season and in drought years for land preparation, crop needs in the early part of the wet season and as a supplementary source of water for farms located at the tail-end of distribution canals.
	www.unesco.org /water/wwap/case_studies/chao_phraya/index.shtml (3203 words)

	The Amazon in the Electronic Passport
		The Amazon River basin is a rainforest or jungle.
		Trees and vegetation use carbon dioxide to make their food and release oxygen into the atmosphere.
		The rainforest of the Amazon River basin provides a valuable resource to the entire planet, but it is being destroyed.
	www.mrdowling.com /712-amazon.html (392 words)

	Caribbean Net News: 2003 Atlantic hurricane season officially over
		No significant damage or flooding was reported in south Texas, although trees were downed and roof damage occurred along the coast of northern Mexico (Associated Press).
		Hurricane Fabian (shown right) was the only hurricane to develop during the month of August, though in total, there were four tropical systems that formed during the month.
		Virginia bore the brunt of the rainfall from Hurricane Isabel.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2003/12/01/season.htm (1498 words)

	Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources -
		In the middle ages, the feast of Adam and Eve was held on December 24th; a fir tree hung with red apples called “the paradise tree” was its symbol.
		It is generally agreeed, however, that the use of an evergreen tree as part of the Christian Christmas celebration started 400 years ago in Germany and spread to most of northern Europe by the 19th century.
		We had a good native tree species that was growing under rather ideal conditions at a time when our rail transportation systems were nearing completion and at a time when the Americans had depleted their wild stands.
	www.gov.ns.ca /NATR/extension/christmastrees/tradition.htm (954 words)

	Ecosystem, Birds, Fish, Mammals, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Coral Reefs of the Caribbean Islands - CaribeResource.com
		The Caribbean Sea has an area of extreme ocean depth: North of the United States Virgin Islands is the Puerto Rican Trench where the ocean depth plunges to just over 25,600 feet, the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean due to the meeting of the North Atlantic and the Caribbean tectonic plates.
		The western Caribbean is further divided by the Cayman Ridge which runs into the Yucatan Basin (13,120 ft. deep), and by the Cayman Trough, which is the deepest part of the Caribbean sea at just over 22,960 ft. deep.
		Most of the Caribbean region is located within the "tropics", from the Tropic of Cancer, at 23.5 degrees North latitude, southward to the coast of South America (the northern islands of the The Bahamas archipelago, from the Exuma Cays northward, and the Keys of Florida are located north of the Tropic of Cancer).
	www.cariberesource.com /ecosystem/ecosystem.html (3210 words)

	Trees Information Portal @ Boughs.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life).
		He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
		The WVU Tree Bark Home Page - Designed to provide a place to learn about the anatomy and physiology of tree bark, fungal canker diseases that affect tree bark, the wound responses of injured tree bark, and the role of wound responses in the resistance of living tree bark to wound pathogens.
	www.boughs.net (4856 words)

	West Basin Municipal Water District
		Swamps are wet or dry for periods of time throughout the year and can support a variety of trees and bushes.
		Mangrove swamps are found in tropical and subtropical areas, such as the Everglades in Florida, the Caribbean, Panama, Indonesia and the Philippines.
		A mangrove is a species of saltwater tolerant tree or shrub.
	www.westbasin.com /wetlands.html (900 words)

	Suriname vacations — holidays in Suriname and the Caribbean
		This compact nation nestled on the north-west coast of the South American Caribbean has a population of fewer than 500,000 persons — and form an amalgamation of peoples of European, African, Asian and the Far East decent who joined the Amerindians who came to Suriname more than 5,000 years ago.
		On a typical morning in the jungle you will be woken by the sound of the howler monkey calling piercingly from his sleeping perch in the trees and a dawn chorus representing some of the 700 species of birds that thrive here.
		You can take a walk in the jungle or be taken by water in a traditional korjaal, and take the opportunity to spot some of the 400 species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians.
	www.doitcaribbean.com /suriname (437 words)

	WWF \| Congo Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On the ground, WWF is a powerful force throughout the Congo Basin Rain Forests.
		Science is at the heart of WWF's activities in the Congo Basin, from sophisticated satellite mapping to "muddy boots" wildlife surveys.
		In the Congo Basin Rain Forests, the stakes are high: Continued destruction of these dense, mysterious forests would leave the world a much poorer place.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/congo/index-TOM.cfm (510 words)

	Threadless T-Shirts - Grow from the heart
		Trees thus show a wide variety of growth form, leaf type and shape, bark characteristics, reproductive structures, etc. The earliest trees were tree ferns and horsetails, which grew in vast forests in the Carboniferous Period; tree ferns still survive, but the only surviving horsetails are not of tree form.
		Tallest trees The heights of the tallest trees in the world have been the subject of considerable dispute and much (often wild) exaggeration.
		Oldest trees The oldest trees are determined by growth rings, which can be seen if the tree is cut down or in cores taken from the edge to the centre of the tree.
	www.threadless.com /submission/99803/Grow_from_the_heart (2813 words)

	Tree
		Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise Your Child in a Complex World
		A tree can also be a chart of one's ancestors in genealogy.
		A pine seedling doesn't fit the definition of a tree, but all pines are trees.
	www.news-server.org /t/tr/tree.html (716 words)

	BVI sailing offers Sail Caribbean teen summer camp participants some of the world’s best sailing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Imagine a white palm-fringed beach, cradled in a basin of steep green jungle hills.
		Abundant species of insects, birds, and reptiles are the only inhabitants and make this island a miniature living laboratory that's truly representative of natural life in the Virgin Islands.
		The 35 Gli Gli was built by the Carib Indians and the project was the subject of a CNN special.
	www.sailcaribbean.com /destinations/bvi (861 words)

	ENVIRONMENT-CARIBBEAN: Beaches and Marine Life in Danger
		Rocks instead of sand, fallen trees, buildings destroyed, and the incursion of seawater inland are some of the most visible symptoms of the erosion that threatens beaches from Mexico to Colombia, as well as the small islands of the Caribbean basin.
		Tierramérica spoke with Juanes, co-author of a regional report on the erosion processes of the Caribbean's sandy beaches, at the headquarters of the Institute of Oceanology, in the Cuban capital, where he has worked since 1979.
		When it comes to the small islands of the Caribbean that survive based on beach tourism, we are compromising everything.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=34248 (1030 words)

	GORP - Blue Sky Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Swaths needed to be cut through the trees to accommodate the lifts, but otherwise, trees were selectively thinned rather than mowed down.
		Earl's Bowl, to the west side, features grandiose open snowfields and islands of trees, mostly moderate enough to be marked with blue squares.
		Vail was so excited about Blue Sky Basin, its latest expansion area, that it put up a special website even before the terrain's January 6, 2000, opening.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/co/blueskybasin.htm (650 words)

	Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, world's first jaguar reserve in Belize
		A 160 square mile area that was first established to save the jaguar from extinction, the Cockscomb, as it’s locally known, is actually made up of two basins that serve as watersheds for two of Belize’s major rivers.
		After a campaign that began in 1974 by the Belizean government to protect the jaguar, the arrival of New York Zoological Society scientist and wildlife researcher Alan Rabinowitz in1982, sealed the fate of the Cockscomb basin as a sanctuary and reserve.
		The trees have been selectively logged for Mahogany since at least the mid eighteen hundreds.
	www.stanncreek.com /attract_cbws.html (475 words)

	cbasin1
		The Caribbean Basin has many different types of landforms.
		The Caribbean's past as a sugar producing economy seems to have had more of a effect of their environment that anything else.
		Caribbean Basin, tourism consumes large amounts of freshwater and generates large amounts of wastewater.
	www.msu.edu /~petersk7/npbe.html (796 words)

	WWF \| Congo Basin
		Stretching from the Mountains of the Moon in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, the Congo Basin contains a quarter of the world's tropical forests, second only to the Amazon Basin.
		Networks of trails formed by the massive feet of forest elephants lead through an expansive reservoir of tropical trees and plants, home to gorillas and chimpanzees, red river hogs and African forest buffaloes, elusive golden cats and elegant bongos.
		While threats from logging, the bushmeat and wildlife trades, Ebola, poaching, climate change and population growth are everywhere, there is a new spirit of hope in the Congo Basin.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/congo/index.cfm (248 words)

	The Nature Conservancy - Save of the Week: Community-based businesses thrive with help of EcoEnterprises fund, acai
		The families harvest the fruit by hand in the Varzea Flooded Forest ecoregion, part of the biodiversity-rich Amazon basin.
		So far, their community and environment-friendly business model is working: Sambazon is now the largest exporter of acai, and its frozen smoothie mixes and other products can be found in hundreds of retailers across the U.S., including Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Trader Joe’s.
		Home to approximately one-third of the Earth’s species, the Amazon Basin is the planet’s greatest reserve of life forms.
	www.nature.org /success/art15110.html (683 words)

	BufferNotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It’s true that soil conditions and other factors limited tree growth in parts of the Plains, but a different picture emerges elsewhere, they write.
		Rather, the lack of trees was the consequence of some of the most rapid and wrenching changes that region has ever known.
		Finally, the advance of farming and stock raising on the Plains served as a knockout punch for the trees, which were valued for needs such as fuel.
	www.nacdnet.org /buffers/05Feb/trees.htm (1590 words)

	Amazon Basin : Active Pursuits \| Frommers.com
		From the Andes Mountains surrounding Cusco, the road to Manu plummets an amazing 4,000m (13,120 ft.) down to the dense tropical forests of the Amazon basin.
		Many birds and mammals (such as tapirs) supplement their diets with minerals found in clay, which is loaded with minerals and salts.
		Early in the morning, parrots gather in trees above the river.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/amazonbasin/2882010020.html (853 words)

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