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  2. Map seed - Wikipedia

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    In video games using procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). "). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes in size (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the unmodified map, or the unmodified ...

  3. Clearing (geography) - Wikipedia

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    The main aim of this process is to clear areas of forest, woodland or scrub in order to use the soil for another purpose, such as pasture land, arable farming, human settlement or the construction of roads or railways. Many of the world's most prominent forests have suffered significant levels of clearing in recent years, including the Amazon.

  4. Shelterwood cutting - Wikipedia

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    Only the best trees are left to seed the regeneration. In many cases the mineral soil is intentionally exposed by equipment allowing small-seeded species that require exposed soil to grow. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Sometimes, the cut is followed by the use of herbicides or prescribed fire to suppress any undesired vegetation. [ 2 ]

  5. Woodlands, Marburg - Wikipedia

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    Woodlands is a heritage-listed mansion at Seminary Road, Marburg, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Brockwell Gill and built from 1889 to 1940s. It is also known as Marburg Campus, Ipswich Grammar School and St Vincent's Seminary. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. [1]

  6. Mansion - Wikipedia

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    A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell". The English word manse originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is usually no longer self-sustaining in this ...

  7. Woodland Davis Clean Water Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Woodland Davis Clean Water Agency (WDCWA) is a joint project between the cities of Woodland and Davis in Yolo County, California; also in partnership with Reclamation District 2035. This agency will oversee the construction and management of the facility that will pump water from the Sacramento River to the two cities.

  8. Fairview Plantation - Wikipedia

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    Upon his death in 1810 at Fairview, Duckett left the estate to his son-in-law, Captain William Duckett Bowie.The will stipulated that William Duckett Bowie and his sons should have Fairview as long as they did not cut down certain trees standing near the house but "if the said Bowie, or any of his children should fell the trees, then the property shall go to my brother, Isaac Duckett."

  9. Seed dispersal - Wikipedia

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    Epilobium hirsutum seed head dispersing seeds. In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. [1] Plants have limited mobility and rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their seeds, including both abiotic vectors, such as the wind, and living vectors such as birds.