forests

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“The water will be flowing to our farmers, the oil will be flowing to our refineries, the forests will be managed, the timber will be harvested” and used to build new single-family homes, Hilton said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Researchers investigating an archaeological site in present-day Côte d'Ivoire found evidence that humans were living in wet tropical forests roughly 150,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Many of Raja's community, more widely known as the Onge, still live in near isolation in neat thatched homes on stilts in coastal forests.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Elsewhere, what used to be roaming bands of Hadzabe men now work as village forest guards, tasked with patrolling vast scrub forests and acacia bushlands to look out for poachers, land grabbers and illegal loggers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Others commented about large clearings in the forests, some with well-tended gardens and cornfields.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz