Glossary

boreal forest

-This type of forest is found in places where glaciers have been in the past, most of the soil has been pushed away by the ice leaving only a thin layer of soil with which plants can grow from.

conifer

-A tree that keeps its leaves all year round, the leaves are predominately and inch or so in leangth and thin, a pine or spruce for example.

deforestation

Removal of certain canopy or understory species or specimens (selective extraction or logging), as well as extensive conversion of large tracts of tropical forest for agricultural, sivlicultrual or urban-industrial uses.

demarcating

-Determining and marking off of boundaries.

estuary

-The mouth of a river where the tides still affect the water level, an important wetland resource.

greehouse gases

-gases, especially carbon dioxide, that absorb long wave radiation and prevent heat from leaving the earth's atmosphere. The global warming caused by increased production of these gases is called the "greenhouse effect."

homolegated

-Approved or ratified.

hydrologic cycle

-the cycle accounting for the evaporation and precipitation of water.

increment bar

-A half inch steel tube one point five (1.5) feet long with a sharpend end used to drill into a tree and remove a plug of wood so that the age of the tree and its health can be determind.

Timber Management Unit (TMU)

-These are ninty (90) sepret plots of land in northwestern Ontario which are owned by timber compines, used for loging and mining.

tropical forests

-Forests that are found between latitudes 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south. Extremely varied and differ tremendously in the number and type of species of dominant vegetation as well as the other plant and animal taxa they harbor.

World Bank

-The branch of the UN that lends money to countries at low cost.