Tree Handling Articles
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Restoring Long Term Soil Health in Haiti with Organic Compost
Last summer, we shared results from a research project that was taken on by master’s students at Cranfield University. The students compared the efficiency of SOIL’s organic compost, Konpòs Lakay, to commercial grade chemical fertilizers available on the market. This comparison was used two core Haitian crops: tomato plants and moringa trees. When the preliminary results ...
By SOIL Haiti
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Stream restoration - Case study
ERC was hired as the General Contractor for the stream restoration of Mill Creek in South Western Ohio. Our scope of work included the construction of one (1) riffle, rock toe, buried grade control, grading, and complete site stream restoration. After mobilizing to the site ERC cleared and grubbed the entire site and then excavated 2,900 CY of soil. In order to align the stream and to slope the ...
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DRUM WOOD CHIPPER
Chenze Drum wood Chipper Production Process Details Zibo Chenze’s Drum Chippers are speciality equipment for wood chips production process. These are used extensively in MDF Board industry and pulp and paper mills, which can be used as part of the wood handling process,as well as for the biomass,pelletizing,WPC/WFC industry and many other applications. The raw material for Drum ...
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Impact of Snow on Soil Greenhouse Gases
Spring is finally in the air, and while the thermometers are slowly but steadily rising, we wanted to explore the impacts of the exceptionally snowy winter on the soil greenhouse gas emissions. For this post, we interviewed a researcher, Boris Tupek, who is based in Luke, the Natural Resources Institute Finland. Tupek’s research specializes in greenhouse gases, including measuring and ...
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Tree Spade Design: the connection with Landscape.
Trees are one of the most important plants in a landscape design. Tree spade is the latest equipment for mass-cultivation in nurseries, for transplantation and production your landscaping dream successful with with the best possible practice. The tree spade machines, which blades are operated by hydraulic systems, are moved by different vehicle like tractors, excavators, skid steers, back-hoe ...
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Help Stop Pollution: Tree Spades and Unpolluted Urban Areas
The existence of human is facing threatened. To create a pollution-free liveable climate, transplantation and incrementation of trees is a major remedy. But, how to get this remedy efficient, easy and shor? It is “tree spade”. The tree spades can make this crucial job easyer to be done. So, as the utility of trees is increasing, the necessity of tree spade is also rising ...
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Tree Spades and Environment: trees and our world
This article in about the usefulness of trees. For our progress we need to cut them down, so we need to replace them at a higher rate to compensate the deforestation using everything we have, like tree spades and environment rules. Trees provide us lots of benefits. Even if you look through a window and see green trees outside, it can reduce your blood pressure, anxiety and stress of your mind ...
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Landscape trees benefit from potassium-based superabsorbent polymer-amended backfill soil
Weiner (1975) put it aptly when he stated that “However rewarding the act of tree planting may be, watching a young tree slowly die can be spiritually defeating.” Landscape plants, noted Richard Harris (1983) in his well-known “Arboriculture” book, “probably suffer more from moisture-related problems than from any other cause.” The success of tree planting ...
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Tree Spade: Great Contributor in Transplanting Trees
Trees release oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide, clean air, cool cities, shade homes, reduce the cost of energy and increase beauty and value of property. So, a world-wise green movement is growing. Nurserymen’s job The human being has been more concerned and more conscious about his own existence and is trying to increase tree population everywhere. Simultaneously the business of nurseries ...
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Valtra and Kesla are a perfect combination for forestry work
Valtra and Kesla are an ideal pairing for forest tasks. Customers have used Valtra-Kesla combinations for years, of course, but now the two companies are also teaming up in product development and the sales network. For example, in Finland and some other markets Valtra and Kesla products can be purchased from the same dealer. The Unlimited Studio at the Valtra factory in Suolahti has also ...
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Effects of revegetation on soil moisture under different precipitation gradients in the Loess Plateau, China
Revegetation can alter catchment water balance and result in soil desiccation. Large-scale revegetation took place in the Loess Plateau of China to control soil erosion and improve environmental conditions. However, the dynamic nature of soil moisture in response to revegetation under different climatic conditions is still unclear mainly due to lack of long-term in situ observations. To ...
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Biomass harvesting: how forest thinning can help prevent wildfires
Every year, wildfires plague the nation. Once there’s an ignition source, dry foliage in country areas can quickly go up in flames, spreading through woodlands or grasslands quickly. While some wildfires can be small, others can be devastating and blaze through thousands of acres. While there’s no way to predict where wildfires may start, there are ways to minimize the damage of ...
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Top 5 Methods to Protecting Cherries from Birds
Not only do humans like to snack on cherries, but birds do, too! Birds love cherries as a food source, even before they are ripe. A mixture of preventative methods should be implemented to keep pesky birds away from your precious cherries. Follow these tips for the best ways to protect your cherry crops or trees from birds: 1. Install Netting One effective way to keep birds away from your ...
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Can superfoods boost the planet’s health, too?
As demand for African and Asian tree-based superfoods grows, researchers and entrepreneurs eye ways to maximize benefits for the environment. It can seem like new health food fads pop up every week — fads that often fade as quickly as they appear. Two gaining steam lately, though, may be worth a longer look: baobab and moringa. Traditional fare in parts of Africa (and for moringa, Asia as ...
By Ensia
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When planting trees does more harm than good
Note to anyone who thinks planting trees is the bees’ knees: Grasslands are important, too. With forests disappearing at record rates and the carbon sequestration and other benefits of vegetation getting increasing visibility, tree-planting has become almost an iconic “environmentally friendly” activity. But in some cases it could do more harm than good, according to Iowa State ...
By Ensia
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Tal-Ya Featured as Company which Fights World Hunger
Tal-Ya was covered in NoCamels as one of four technologies in an article titled “These Israeli Companies Fight World Hunger with Innovative Technologies” by Roseanne Tabachnik. While water scarcity has plagued desert countries for decades, it is no longer an inevitable concern for Israel’s desert thanks to technologies like Tal-Ya Agriculture Solutions. The Israeli firm has ...
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To everyone’s surprise, forests are returning to Malawi. Here’s why.
The East African country of Malawi epitomizes the global problem of deforestation. Now, there are signs it could epitomize the solution, too, as government, community members and grassroots organizations tackle the problem together. Some 95 percent of rural Malawian households depend on wood for necessities such as cooking, clean water and sanitation. Many Malawians also depend on the money they ...
By Ensia
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Goldman Prize winners fight and inspire
Every April around Earth Day, six remarkable people from each of the world’s habitable continents travel to San Francisco to receive “the Nobel of grassroots environmental activism,” the Goldman Environmental Prize. Created by San Francisco philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989, the prize recognizes individuals who are overcoming strong corporate and government ...
By Ensia
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Sustaining Mali’s Inner Niger Delta
The Inner Niger Delta in central Mali is a giant green oasis on the edge of the Sahara desert. It is one of the country’s most productive areas, but also among its poorest. At the height of the wet season, when the River Niger is swollen by heavy rainfall in Guinea, an area the size of Belgium, from Mopti to Tombouctou, turns into a landscape of lakes. As I discovered on a previous visit ...
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The wealth of forests
The day I first set foot in a tropical rainforest, in Malaysia in the early 1980s, I experienced something profound. From the echoes of gibbons calling from the canopy in the early morning mist to the iridescent flash of a bird in a beam of sunlight, rainforests are a sensory delight as well as a marvel to anyone’s scientific curiosity. As I subsequently watched these forests dwindle and, ...
By SciDev.Net
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