Fire serves to clear out old trees and excess underbrush so younger trees can grow.
FORBES: Forests and Climate Change: a Combustible Combination
The rainforest made good on its name, pouring down until we hacked through the underbrush into a canopy-covered lagoon.
Pursuing them through the underbrush is where the mental toughness that typically accrues to the middle-aged comes in handy.
Residents in one San Diego neighborhood have hired hundreds of goats to eat the tinder dry underbrush that fuels fires.
The result of these extremes is that many of our woodlands are ready to explode, thanks to the buildup of dense underbrush.
Quickly, I walked off into a section of trees and underbrush.
The problem is that while clear-cutting sections of rain forest and burning out all the underbrush makes great soil for pastureland, it only does so for about three years.
If we can get our technical teams to clear out the underbrush, then hopefully, in 2013, there's a foundation to actually make some significant progress on this and a lot of other bilateral issues.
The film offers privileged views of writer-editor conferences under deadline pressures and page-one editorial meetings (which are rather stiff), but it ignores the many other things the paper does well, such as foreign, financial, and national-affairs reporting, and Rossi misses the underbrush, the secret life and murmured music of the place.
What we've seen, as I've been pushing our agencies and administration to take a hard look at this, is exactly what Mark just said, that in any area there's a whole bunch of underbrush that can be cleared out and made much more efficient, while still achieving the objectives of public health, welfare, environmental, and so forth.
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