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Preparation of a fascine mattress prior to immersion in Wenduine A fascine mattress being prepared for sinking in the port of Wanssum on the Maas. A fascine mattress (Dutch: Zinkstuk, literally sink piece), is a large woven mat made of brushwood, typically willow twigs and shoots, used to protect riverbeds and other underwater surfaces from scour and erosion.
In discrete geometry, an opaque set is a system of curves or other set in the plane that blocks all lines of sight across a polygon, circle, or other shape. Opaque sets have also been called barriers, beam detectors, opaque covers, or (in cases where they have the form of a forest of line segments or other curves) opaque forests.
Black Lake is a nature reserve in Delamere Forest, Cheshire, England.It lies in the southwestern corner of the forest, just south of the Manchester–Chester railway. [1] It is managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust (CWT) [2] on behalf of the Forestry Commission, and as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is monitored by Natural England.
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Feb. 12—Christina Smith had a price for preserving her 70 acres of forest and farmland in District Township: no hunting and save the stone fences. Those were her main requirements as she worked ...
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Bast fibres are processed for use in carpet, yarn, rope, geotextile (netting or matting), traditional carpets, hessian or burlap, paper, sacks, etc. Bast fibres are also used in the non-woven, moulding, and composite technology industries for the manufacturing of non-woven mats and carpets, composite boards as furniture materials, automobile ...