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Sigh No More (Mumford & Sons album)
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Sigh No More
Studio album by Mumford & Sons
Released
2 October 2009
Recorded
2008–2009
Studio
Eastcote Studios, London, UK
Genre
Folk rock
indie folk
bluegrass
Length
48:33
Label
Island, Glassnote
Producer
Markus Dravs
Mumford & Sons chronology
Love Your Ground
(2008) Sigh No More
(2009) Babel
(2012)
Singles from Sigh No More
"Little Lion Man"
Released: 11 August 2009
"Winter Winds"
Released: 6 December 2009
"The Cave"
Released: 26 February 2010
"Roll Away Your Stone"
Released: 3 June 2010
Sigh No More is the debut studio album by London-based rock quartet Mumford & Sons. It was released on 2 October 2009 in the UK, and on 16 February 2010 in the United States and Canada. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 11 and peaked at No. 2 on 20 February 2011, in its 72nd week on the chart and following its Album of the Year win at the Brit Awards. In early 2011, the album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in the US.
In mid-2010, it was rated the year-to-date's 8th best record on NPR's All Songs Considered.[1] On 20 July 2010, it was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, awarded annually for the best album in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[2] On 6 December 2010, a deluxe edition was released. This included the original album, a live CD of the concert from the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, and a DVD containing parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Gentlemen of the Road documentaries. On 15 February 2011, the album was awarded the Best British Album at the BRIT Awards.[3] In the United States, it was the 3rd most digitally downloaded album of 2011, selling 761,000 copies.[4]
The album's title is taken from a line in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and several other lines from the play appear in the title track's lyrics.
The vinyl LP version of the record was pressed by United Record Pressing in Nashville, Tennessee.
Contents
1 Singles
2 Critical reception
3 Commercial performance
4 Track listing
5 Personnel
6 Release history
7 Charts
7.1 Weekly charts
7.2 Year-end charts
8 Certifications
9 References
Singles[edit]
"Little Lion Man" was released on 11 August 2009 as the first single from the album. The single has managed to reach number 21 in the UK Singles Chart, number 45 in the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, number 3 in the Australian Singles Chart and #1 in Triple J's Hottest 100 (Australia) of 2009.
"Winter Winds" was released on 6 December 2009 as the second single from the album. The single has managed to reach number 44 in the UK Singles Chart.
"The Cave" was released on 26 February 2010 as the third single from the album. The single reached number 31 in the UK Singles Chart, number 27 in the Billboard Hot 100, number 3 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, number 10 in the Irish Singles Chart and number 17 in the ARIA Chart. It was released as the second American single on 25 October 2010.[5]
"Roll Away Your Stone" was released on 3 June 2010 as the fourth single from the album. The single peaked at number 141 and number 10 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.
Critical reception[edit]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source
Rating
Metacritic 68/100[6]
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic [7]
Clash (8/10)[8]
Drowned in Sound (5/10)[9]
The Guardian [10]
musicOMH [11]
NOW [12]
NME (7/10)[13]
PopMatters [14]
Pitchfork (2.1/10.0)[15]
Spin (8/10)[16]
Upon release, the album received mixed reviews from multiple sources. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 68 out of 100, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[17]
Commercial performance[edit]
Sigh No More was a slow burner, reaching number one on the Irish Albums Chart[18] and number two on the UK Albums Chart six months after its release.
The album sold over a million copies in the United Kingdom and over three million in the US.[19] In the US, the album sold 626,000 copies in 2010 and 1,282,000 in 2011.[20][21] As of May 2015, it has sold over 3.2 million copies in the US.[22] It was the second debut album (after The Fame by Lady Gaga) to sell 1 million digital copies with 1,656,000 million copies sold.[23]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks written by Mumford & Sons.
No.
Title
Length
1. "Sigh No More" 3:27
2. "The Cave" 3:37
3. "Winter Winds" 3:39
4. "Roll Away Your Stone" 4:23
5. "White Blank Page" 4:14
6. "I Gave You All" 4:20
7. "Little Lion Man" 4:06
8. "Timshel" 2:53
9. "Thistle & Weeds" 4:49
10. "Awake My Soul" 4:15
11. "Dust Bowl Dance" 4:43
12. "After the Storm" 4:03
showLimited Deluxe Edition bonus track
No.
Title
Length
13. "Hold On to What You Believe" 4:06
showLimited Deluxe Edition bonus disc (Live at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire)
No.
Title
Length
1. "Sigh No More" 4:11
2. "Winter Winds" 3:48
3. "Roll Away Your Stone" 4:26
4. "White Blank Page" 4:13
5. "I Gave You All" 4:17
6. "Awake My Soul" 4:38
7. "Little Lion Man" 4:16
8. "Thistle & Weeds" 5:39
9. "Timshel" 3:22
10. "The Cave" 4:00
11. "Dust Bowl Dance" 5:31
12. "Feel the Tide" 3:41
Personnel[edit]
Marcus Mumford – vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin
Winston Marshall (Country Winston) – vocals, banjo, electric banjo, electric guitar, bass guitar
Ben Lovett – vocals, keyboards, organ, accordion
Ted Dwane – vocals, double bass, bass guitar, drums
Nick Etwell – trumpet, flugelhorn
Pete Beachill – trombone
Nell Catchpole – violin, viola
Christopher Allan – cello
Markus Dravs – production, "a nail and a piano string"
Tom Hobden – original string parts on track 5
François Chevallier – engineering
Samuel Navel – assistant engineering
Ruadhri Cushnan – mixing
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Release history[edit]
Date
Country
Label
Album version
2 October 2009 (2009-10-02)[24] United Kingdom Island Records Standard
6 December 2010 (2010-12-06) Limited Deluxe
16 February 2010 (2010-02-16) Canada Glassnote Records Standard
United States
24 October 2011 (2011-10-24) United States Glassnote Records Limited Deluxe
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Charts (2009–2012)
Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[25] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[26] 26
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[27] 3
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[28] 2
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[29] 20
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[30] 3
European Top 100 Albums (Billboard)[31] 8
French Albums (SNEP)[32] 173
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[33] 29
Irish Albums (IRMA)[34] 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[35] 1
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[36] 28
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[37] 21
UK Albums (OCC)[38] 2
US Billboard 200[39] 2
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[40] 2
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[41] 1
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[42] 1
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[43] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[44] 1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[45] 1
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2009)
Rank
UK Albums Chart[46] 102
Chart (2010)
Rank
Australian Albums Chart[47] 8
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[48] 4
Dutch Albums Chart[49] 14
European Top 100 Albums[50] 15
Irish Albums Chart[51] 7
New Zealand Albums Chart[52] 20
UK Albums Chart[53] 10
US Billboard 200[54] 83
Chart (2011)
Rank
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[55] 37
Canadian Albums Chart[56] 7
Dutch Albums Chart[57] 38
New Zealand Albums Chart[58] 5
US Billboard 200[59] 8
Chart (2012)
Position
Australian Albums Chart[60] 53
Belgian Midprice Albums Chart (Flanders)[61] 10
Dutch CombiAlbums Chart[62] 37
New Zealand Albums Chart 38
US Billboard 200[63] 29
US Alternative Albums Chart[63] 7
US Digital Albums Chart[63] 13
US Folk Albums Chart[63] 2
US Independent Albums Chart[63] 3
US Rock Albums Chart[63] 7
Chart (2013)
Position
US Billboard 200[64] 52
US Folk Albums Chart[63] 4
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[65] 4× Platinum 280,000
Austria (IFPI)[66] Gold 10,000
Belgium (Ultratop)[67] Platinum 15,000
Canada (Music Canada)[68] 2× Platinum 160,000
Germany (BVMI)[69] 3× Gold 300,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)[70] 2× Platinum 30,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[71] 5× Platinum 1,614,893[72]
United States (RIAA)[73] 3× Platinum 3,200,000
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[74] 2× Platinum 2,000,000
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover in India. Above is the protected forest in Van Vihar National Park.
Arunachal Pradesh has the 2nd largest forest cover in India, and its largest primary forest cover. Above is Nuranang Falls on the way to Tawang
Chhatthisgarh and Odisha are other major forest covered states of India. Above elephants in Chandaka forest, Odisha.
Western Ghats are another bio-active forest cover of India. Above Kudremukh National Park, Karnataka.
A NASA photo of India's North Sentinel Island covered with forest
Forestry in India is a significant rural industry and a major environmental resource. India is one of the ten most forest-rich countries of the world along with the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Australia, Indonesia and Sudan. Together, India and these countries account for 67 percent of total forest area of the world.[1] India's forest cover grew at 0.22% annually over 1990-2000,[2] and has grown at the rate of 0.46% per year over 2000-2010,[2] after decades where forest degradation was a matter of serious concern.[3]
As of 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates India's forest cover to be about 68 million hectares, or 22% of the country's area.[4][5] The 2013 Forest Survey of India states its forest cover increased to 69.8 million hectares by 2012, per satellite measurements; this represents an increase of 5,871 square kilometers of forest cover in 2 years.[6] However, the gains were primarily in northern, central and southern Indian states, while northeastern states witnessed a net loss in forest cover over 2010 to 2012.
In 2002, forestry industry contributed 1.7% to India's GDP.[3] In 2010, the contribution to GDP dropped to 0.9%, largely because of rapid growth of the economy in other sectors and the government's decision to reform and reduce import tariffs to let imports satisfy the growing Indian demand for wood products. India produces a range of processed forest (wood and non-wood) products ranging from wood panel products and wood pulp to make bronze, rattazikistan ware and pern resin. India's paper industry produces over 3,000 metric tonnes annually from more than 400 mills.[3] The furniture and craft industry is another consumer of wood. India's wood-based processing industries consumed about 30 million cubic metres of industrial wood in 2002.[3] India annually consumes an additional 270 million tonnes of fuelwood, 2800 million tonnes of fodder, and about 102 million cubic meter of forest products - valued at about ₹27,500 crore (US$4.3 billion) a year. India is one of the world's largest consumer of fuel-wood.[3] India's consumption of fuel-wood is about five times higher than what can be sustainably removed from forests.[3] However, a large percentage of this fuel-wood is grown as biomass remaining from agriculture, and is managed outside forests. Fuel-wood meets about 40% of the energy needs of the country.[3] Around 80% of rural people and 48% of urban people use fuel-wood.[3] Unless India makes major, rapid and sustained effort to expand electricity generation and power plants, the rural and urban poor in India will continue to meet their energy needs through unsustainable destruction of forests and fuel wood consumption. India's dependence on fuel-wood and forestry products as a primary energy source is not only environmentally unsustainable, it is a primary cause of India's near-permanent haze and air pollution.[7][8]
Forestry in India is more than just about wood and fuel. India has a thriving non-wood forest products industry, which produces latex, gums, resins, essential oils, flavours, fragrances and aroma chemicals, incense sticks, handicrafts, thatching materials and medicinal plants. About 60% of non-wood forest products production is consumed locally. About 50% of the total revenue from the forestry industry in India is in non-wood forest products category.[3] In 2002, non-wood forest products were a source of significant supplemental income to over 400 million people in India, mostly rural.[3]
Contents
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1 History of forestry in india
1.1 Forestry in Colonial system
1.2 Forestry in India from 1947 to 1990
1.3 Post 1990 Forestry in India
2 Distribution of forests in Indian states
2.1 Forest cover measurement methods
3 Strategy to increase cover
3.1 Effects of tribal population growth on forest flora and fauna
4 Economics
5 Biodiversity in Indian forests
5.1 Trading in exotic birds
6 Conservation
7 Issues and threats
7.1 Chipko Movement
7.2 Shifting cultivation
7.3 Timber mafia and forest cover
8 Forest rights
9 Gallery
10 See also
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
History of forestry in india[edit]
Forestry in Colonial system[edit]
In 1840, the British colonial administration promulgated an ordinance called Crown Land (Encroachment) Ordinance. This ordinance targeted forests in Britain's Asian colonies, and vested all forests, wastes, unoccupied and uncultivated lands to the crown. The Imperial Forest Department was established in India in 1864.[9] The British state monopoly over Indian forests was first asserted through the Indian Forest Act of 1865. This law simply established the government’s claims over forests. The British colonial administration then enacted a further far-reaching Forest Act of 1878, thereby acquiring the sovereignty of all wastelands which in its definition included all forests. This Act also enabled the administration to demarcate reserved and protected forests. In the former, all local rights were abolished while in the latter some existing rights were accepted as a privilege offered by the British government to the local people which can be taken away if necessary. These colonial laws brought the forests under the centralised sovereignty of the state. Sir Dietrich Brandis, the Inspector General of Forests in India from 1864 to 1883, is regarded as the father not only of modern scientific forestry in India, but also as the "father of tropical forestry."[10]
An FAO report claims it was believed in colonial times that the forest is a national resource which should be utilised for the interests of the government. Like coal and gold mines, it was believed that forests belonged to the state for exploitation. Forest areas became a source of revenue. For example, teak was extensively exploited by the British colonial government for ship construction, sal and pine in India for railway sleepers and so on. Forest contracts, such as that of biri pata (leaves of Diospyros melanoxylon), earned so much revenue that it was often used by the people involved in this business as a leverage for political power. These contracts also created forest zamindars (government recognised forest landowners). Additionally, as in Africa, some forests in India were earmarked by the government officials and the rulers with the sole purpose of using them for hunting and sport for the royalty and the colonial officials.[11]
Forestry in India from 1947 to 1990[edit]
In 1952, the government nationalised the forests which were earlier with the zamindars. India also nationalised most of the forest wood industry and non-wood forest products industry. Over the years, many rules and regulations were introduced by India. In 1980, the Conservation Act was passed, which stipulated that the central permission is required to practice sustainable agro-forestry in a forest area. Violations or lack of permits was made a criminal offense. These nationalisation wave and laws intended to limit deforestation, conserve biodiversity, and save wildlife. However, the intent of these regulations was not matched by reality that followed. Neither investment aimed at sustainable forestry nor knowledge transfer followed once India had nationalised and heavily regulated forestry. Deforestation increased, biodiversity diminished and wildlife dwindled. India's rural population and impoverished families continued to ignore the laws passed in Delhi, and use the forests near them for sustenance.[12]
India launched its National Forest Policy in 1988. This led to a programme named Joint Forest Management, which proposed that specific villages in association with the forest department will manage specific forest blocks. In particular, the protection of the forests would be the responsibility of the people. By 1992, seventeen states of India participated in Joint Forest Management, bringing about 2 million hectares of forests under protection. The effect of this initiative has been claimed to be positive. The growth rates have been slow through these years.[citation needed]
Post 1990 Forestry in India[edit]
Forests in Himachal Pradesh
Since 1991, India has reversed the deforestation trend. Specialists of the United Nations report India's forest as well as woodland cover has increased. A 2010 study by the Food and Agriculture Organisation ranks India amongst the 10 countries with the largest forest area coverage in the world (the other nine being Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Australia, Indonesia and Sudan).[13] India is also one of the top 10 countries with the largest primary forest coverage in the world, according to this study.
From 1990 to 2000, FAO finds India was the fifth largest gainer in forest coverage in the world; while from 2000 to 2010, FAO considers India as the third largest gainer in forest coverage.[13]
Some 500,000 square kilometres, about 17% of India's land area, were regarded as Forest Area in the early 1990s. In FY 1987, however, actual forest cover was 640,000 square kilometres. Some claim, that because more than 50% of this land was barren or bushland, the area under productive forest was actually less than 350,000 square kilometres, or approximately 10% of the country's land area.
India's 0.6% average annual rate of deforestation for agricultural and non-lumbering land uses in the decade beginning in 1981 was one of the lowest in the world and on a par with Brazil.
Distribution of forests in Indian states[edit]
India is a large and diverse country. Its land area includes regions with some of the world's highest rainfall to very dry deserts, coast line to alpine regions, river deltas to tropical islands. The variety and distribution of forest vegetation is large: there are 600 species of hardwoods, including sal (Shorea robusta). India is one of the 17 mega biodiverse regions of the world.[14]
Indian forests types include tropical evergreens, tropical deciduous, swamps, mangroves, sub-tropical, montane, scrub, sub-alpine and alpine forests. These forests support a variety of ecosystems with diverse flora and fauna.
Forest cover measurement methods[edit]
Forests and valley of Uttarakhand.
Prior to the 1980s, India deployed a bureaucratic method to estimate forest coverage. A land was notified as covered under Indian Forest Act, and then officials deemed this land area as recorded forest even if it was devoid of vegetation. By this forest-in-name-only method, the total amount of recorded forest, per official Indian records, was 71.8 million hectares.[15] Any comparison of forest coverage number of a year before 1987 for India, to current forest coverage in India, is thus meaningless; it is just bureaucratic record keeping, with no relation to reality or meaningful comparison.
In the 1980s, space satellites were deployed for remote sensing of real forest cover. Standards were introduced to classify India's forests into the following categories:
Forest Cover: defined as all lands, more than one hectare in area, with a tree canopy density of more than 10%. (Such lands may or may not be statutorily notified as forest area).
Very Dense Forest: All lands, with a forest cover with canopy density of 70% and above
Moderately Dense Forest: All lands, with a forest cover with canopy density of 40-70 %
Open Forest: All lands, with forest cover with canopy density of 10 to 40%
Mangrove Cover: Mangrove forest is salt tolerant forest ecosystem found mainly in tropical and sub-tropical coastal and/or inter-tidal regions. Mangrove cover is the area covered under mangrove vegetation as interpreted digitally from remote sensing data. It is a part of forest cover and also classified into three classes viz. very dense, moderately dense and open.
Non Forest Land: defined as lands without any forest cover
Scrub Cover: All lands, generally in and around forest areas, having bushes and or poor tree growth, chiefly small or stunted trees with canopy density less than 10%
Tree Cover: Land with tree patches (blocks and linear) outside the recorded forest area exclusive of forest cover and less than the minimum mapable area of 1 hectare
Trees Outside Forests: Trees growing outside Recorded Forest Areas
The first satellite recorded forest coverage data for India became available in 1987. India and the United States cooperated in 2001, using Landsat MSS with spatial resolution of 80 metres, to get accurate forest distribution data. India thereafter switched to digital image and advanced satellites with 23 metres resolution and software processing of images to get more refined data on forest quantity and forest quality. India now assesses its forest distribution data biennially.
2007 forest survey data
The 2007 forest census data thus obtained and published by the Government of India suggests the five states with largest area under forest cover as the following:[15]
State
Area (in million hectares)
Madhya Pradesh 7.64
Arunachal Pradesh 6.8
Chhattisgarh 5.6
Odisha 4.83
Maharashtra 4.68
2013 forest survey data
According to India's 2013 forest survey report, the forest cover in top five states has increased, with the exception of Arunachal Pradesh:[16]
State
Area (in million hectares)
Madhya Pradesh 7.75
Arunachal Pradesh 6.73
Chhattisgarh 5.6
Maharashtra 5.06
Odisha 5.03
Strategy to increase cover[edit]
Forest around a lake in the Western Ghats of India
Forest covered hills in Uttarakhand
A NASA satellite image of India in April 2008, showing forest cover and about to be harvested crop in its peninsula region.
Indian Forest cover map created using Openstreetmap data (map as of February 2015).
In the 1970s, India declared its long-term strategy for forestry development to compose of three major objectives: to reduce soil erosion and flooding; to supply the growing needs of the domestic wood products industries; and to supply the needs of the rural population for fuelwood, fodder, small timber, and miscellaneous forest produce. To achieve these objectives, the National Commission on Agriculture in 1976 recommended the reorganisation of state forestry departments and advocated the concept of social forestry. The commission itself worked on the first two objectives, emphasising traditional forestry and wildlife activities; in pursuit of the third objective, the commission recommended the establishment of a new kind of unit to develop community forests. Following the leads of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, a number of other states also established community-based forestry agencies that emphasized programmes on farm forestry, timber management, extension forestry, reforestation of degraded forests, and use of forests for recreational purposes.
In the 1980s, such socially responsible forestry was encouraged by state community forestry agencies. They emphasized such projects as planting wood lots on denuded communal cattle-grazing grounds to make villages self-sufficient in fuelwood, to supply timber needed for the construction of village houses, and to provide the wood needed for the repair of farm implements. Both individual farmers and tribal communities were also encouraged to grow trees for profit. For example, in Gujarat, one of the more aggressive states in developing programmes of socioeconomic importance, the forestry department distributed 200 million tree seedlings in 1983. The fast-growing eucalyptus is the main species being planted nationwide, followed by pine and poplar.
In 2002, India set up a National Forest Commission to review and assess India's policy and law, its effect on India's forests, its impact of local forest communities, and to make recommendations to achieve sustainable forest and ecological security in India.[17] The report made over 300 recommendations including the following:
India must pursue rural development and animal husbandry policies to address local communities need to find affordable cattle fodder and grazing. To avoid destruction of local forest cover, fodder must reach these communities on reliable roads and other infrastructure, in all seasons year round.
The Forest Rights Bill is likely to be harmful to forest conservation and ecological security. The Forest Rights Bill became a law since 2007.
The government should work closely with mining companies. Revenue generated from lease of mines must be pooled into a dedicated fund to conserve and improve the quality of forests in the region where the mines are located.
Power to declare ecologically sensitive areas must be with each Indian state.
The mandate of State Forest Corporations and government owned monopolies must be changed.
Government should reform regulations and laws that ban felling of trees and transit of wood within India. Sustainable agro-forestry and farm forestry must be encouraged through financial and regulatory reforms, particularly on privately owned lands.
India's national forest policy expects to invest US$26.7 billion by 2020, to pursue nationwide afforestation coupled with forest conservation, with the goal of increasing India's forest cover from 20% to 33%.[18]
Effects of tribal population growth on forest flora and fauna[edit]
Indian forests are home to many near threatened and threatened species of birds and other wildlife. This is Nicobar pigeon found in the Andaman & Nicobar islands of India.
Due to faster tribal population growth in forest / tribal areas, naturally available forest resources (NTFP) in a sustainable manner are becoming inadequate for their basic livelihood. Many tribal are giving up their traditional livelihood and taking up farming and cattle rearing in the forest areas causing irreparable damage to forests. The erstwhile protectors of forests are slowly turning into the bane of forests and its wildlife. The government should devise schemes to avert this process and save the dwindling forest area and its flora and fauna. Tribal people have extraordinary understanding of forest flora and fauna which can be productively utilized. All the tribal peoples shall be employed by the government in the expansion and protection of forests and its wildlife till their descendants get educated and diversify into industrial and service sectors.[19]
Economics[edit]
Significant forest products of India include paper, plywood, sawnwood, timber, poles, pulp and matchwood, fuelwood, sal seeds, tendu leaves, gums and resins, cane and rattan, bamboo, grass and fodder, drugs, spices and condiments, herbs, cosmetics, tannins.
India is a significant importer of forest products. Logs account for 67% of all wood and wood products imported into India due to local preference for unprocessed wood. This preference is explained by the availability of inexpensive labor and the large number of productive sawmills. In trade year 2008-2009, India imported logs worth $1.14 billion, an increase of about 70% in just 4 years.[20]
Indian market for unprocessed wood is mostly fulfilled with imports from Malaysia, Myanmar, Côte d'Ivoire, China and New Zealand.[citation needed]
India is growing market for partially finished and ready-to-assemble furniture. China and Malaysia account for 60% of this imported furniture market in India followed by Italy, Germany, Singapore, Sri Lanka, the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.[citation needed]
The Indian market is accustomed to teak and other hardwoods that are perceived to be more resistant to termites, decay and are able to withstand the tropical climate. Teak wood is typically seen as a benchmark with respect to grade and prices of other wood species. Major imported wood species are tropical woods such as mahogany, garjan, marianti, and sapeli. Plantation timber includes teak, eucalyptus, and poplar, as well as spruce, pine, and fir. India imports small quantities of temperate hardwoods such as ash, maple, cherry, oak, walnut, beech, etc. as squared logs or as lumber. India is the world's third largest hardwood log importer.
In 2009, India imported 332 million cubic metres of roundwood mostly for fuel wood application, 17.3 million cubic metres of sawnwood and wood-based panels, 7.6 million metric tonnes of paper and paperboard and about 4.5 million metric tonnes of wood and fiber pulp.
Biodiversity in Indian forests[edit]
Spotted Owlet - one of over 1000 bird species in Indian forests
Asian Golden cat, one of the 15 feline species found in India
Asian paradise flycatcher – A bird found in the forests of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Indian forests are more than trees and an economic resource. They are home to some of earth's unique flora and fauna.
Indian forests represent one of the 12 mega biodiverse regions of the world. India's Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas are amongst the 32 biodiversity hotspots on earth.
India is home to 12% of world's recorded flora, some 47000 species of flowering and non-flowering plants.[21] Over 59000 species of insects, 2500 species of fishes, 17000 species of angiosperms live in Indian forests. About 90000 animal species, representing over 7% of earth's recorded faunal species have been found in Indian forests. Over 4000 mammal species are found here. India has one of the richest variety of bird species on earth, hosting about 12.5% of known species of birds. Many of these flora and fauna species are endemic to India.
Indian forests and wetlands serve as temporary home to many migrant birds.
Trading in exotic birds[edit]
India was, until 1991, one of the largest exporters of wild birds to international bird markets. Most of the birds traded were parakeets and munias. Most of these birds were exported to countries in Europe and the Middle East.[22]
In 1991, India passed a law that banned all trade and trapping of indigenous birds in the country. The passage of the law stopped the legal exports, but illegal trafficking has continued. In 2001, for example, an attempt to smuggle some 10,000 wild birds was discovered, and these birds were confiscated at the Mumbai international airport.
According to a WWF-India published report, trapping and trading of some 300 species of birds continues in India, representing 25% of known species in the country. Tens of thousands of birds are trapped from the forests of India, and traded every month to serve the demand for bird pets. Another market driver for bird trapping and trade is the segment of Indians who on certain religious occasions, buy birds in captivity and free them as an act of kindness to all living beings of the world. Trappers and traders know of the need for piety in these people, and ensure a reliable supply of wild birds so that they can satisfy their urge to do good.
The trappers, a detailed survey and investigation reveals are primarily tribal communities. The trappers lead a life of poverty and migrate over time. Their primary motivation was economics and the need to financially support their families.[23][24]
Trapping and transport of trapped birds from India's forests has high injury and losses, as in other parts of the world. For every bird that reaches the market for a sale, many more die.
Abrar Ahmed, the WWF-India and TRAFFIC-India ornithologist, suggests the following as potentially effective means of stopping the harm caused by illegal trading of wild birds in India:[23]
Engage the tribal communities in a constructive way. Instead of criminalising their skills at finding, recognising, attracting and capturing birds, India should offer them employment to re-apply their skills through scientific management, protection and wildlife preservation.
Allow captive and humane breeding of certain species of birds, to satisfy the market demand for pet birds.
Better and continuous enforcement to prevent trapping practices, stop trading and end smuggling of wild birds of India through neighboring countries that have not banned trading of wild birds.
Education and continued media exposure of the ecological and environmental harm done by wild bird trade, in order to reduce the demand for trapped wild birds as pets.
Conservation[edit]
Forest around Nohkalikai fall in Meghalaya, an eastern state of India
Greater Flamingoes amid forests of Andhra Pradesh.
The role of forests in the national economy and in ecology was further emphasized in the 1988 National Forest Policy, which focused on ensuring environmental stability, restoring the ecological balance, and preserving the remaining forests. Other objectives of the policy were meeting the need for fuelwood, fodder, and small timber for rural and tribal people while recognising the need to actively involve local people in the management of forest resources. Also in 1988, the Forest Conservation Act of 1980 was amended to facilitate stricter conservation measures. A new target was to increase the forest cover to 33% of India's land area from the then-official estimate of 23%. In June 1990, the central government adopted resolutions that combined forest science with social forestry, that is, taking the sociocultural traditions of the local people into. The cumulative area afforested during the 1951-91 period was nearly 179,000 square kilometres. However, despite large-scale tree planting programmes, forestry is one arena in which India has actually regressed since independence. Annual fellings at about four times the growth rate are a major cause. Widespread pilfering by villagers for firewood and fodder also represents a major decrement. In addition, the 1988 National Forest Policy noted, the forested area has been shrinking as a result of land cleared for farming and development programmes.
Between 1990 and 2010, as evidenced by satellite data, India has reversed the deforestation trend. FAO reports India's rate of forest addition has increased in recent years, and as of 2010, it is the third fastest in the world in increasing forest cover.
The 2009 Indian national forest policy document emphasizes the need to combine India's effort at forest conservation with sustainable forest management.[25] India defines forest management as one where the economic needs of local communities are not ignored, rather forests are sustained while meeting nation's economic needs and local issues through scientific forestry.[18]
Issues and threats[edit]
Chipko Movement[edit]
Main article: Chipko Movement
Chipko movement in India started in the 1970s around a dispute on how and who should have a right to harvest forest resources. Although the Chipko movement is now practically non-existent in Uttarakhand, the Indian state of its origin, it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and a people's movement in developing countries such as India. What caused Chipko is now a subject of debate; some neopopulists theorise Chipko as an environmental movement and an attempt to save forests, while others suggest that Chipko movement had nothing to do with eco-conservation, but was driven primarily to demand equal rights to harvest forests by local communities.
According to one set of writers: Since the early 1970s, as they realised that deforestation threatened not only the ecology but their livelihood in a variety of ways, people have become more interested and involved in conservation. The best known popular activist movement is the Chipko Movement, in which local women under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt and Sunderlal Bahuguna, decided to fight the government and the vested interests to save trees. The residents declared that they would embrace—literally "to stick to" (chipkna in Hindi)--trees to prevent cutting of ash trees in their district.[citation needed]
According to those[26] who critique the ecological awareness and similar theories, Chipko had nothing to do with protecting forests, rather it was an economic struggle using the traditional Indian way of non-violence. These scientists point out that very little is left of the Chipko movements today in its region of origin save for its memory, even though the quality of forests and its use remains a critical issue for India. To explain the cause of Chipko movement, they find that government officials had ignored the subsistence issues of the local communities, who depended on forests for fuel, fodder, fertiliser and sustenance resources. These researchers claim that local interviews and fact finding confirms that local communities had filed complaints requesting the right to commercially exploit the forests around them. Their requests were denied, while permits to fell trees and exploit those same forests were granted to government-favoured non-resident contractors including a sporting company named Symonds. A protest that became Chipko movement followed. The movement grew and Indian government responded by imposing a 15-year ban on felling all trees above 1000 metres in the region directly as a result of the Chipko agitations. This legislation was deeply resented by many communities supporting Chipko because, the regulation further excluded the local people from the forest around them. Opposition to the legislation resulted in so-called 'Ped Katao Andolan' in the same region, a movement to cut the trees down in order to defy the new legislation. The people behind Chipko movement felt that the government did not understand or care about their economic situation.[26]
Chipko movement, at the very least, suggests that forests in India are an important and integral resource for communities that live within these forests, or survive near the fringes of these forests.
Shifting cultivation[edit]
An example of Jhum cultivation, or slash and burn type farming, from India's northeast.
A major threat to forests of India are in its northeastern states. From ancient times, the locals have practiced slash-and-burn shifting cultivation to grow food. Locally called Jhum, it supports about 450,000 families in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya.[6] Approximately 15,000 square kilometers of forest land is under jhum cultivation, and just a sixth of this land is actually producing any crop at any given year. The tribal people consider it a tradition, and economic ecosystem. However, the slash and burn causes damage to a dense forest, to soil, to flora and fauna, as well as pollution. The crop yields are very poor with jhum cultivation. Between 2010 and 2012, satellite studies confirmed a net loss of forest cover over these northeastern states.[6] The lost forest includes primary dense forests. There is a concerted effort by the state government officials to educate, incentivize and train jhum dependent families to horticulture and other high value crops, along with an offer of food supply security. Bamboo-based textiles and value added forest products industries are also being encouraged by the local officials.[27] States such as Arunachal Pradesh reported reduction in Jhum cultivation practice in 2013.[28]
Timber mafia and forest cover[edit]
Main article: Mafia raj
A 1999 publication claimed that protected forest areas in several parts of India, such as Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Jharkhand, were vulnerable to illegal logging by timber mafias that have coopted or intimidated forestry officials, local politicians, businesses and citizenry.[29][30]
Despite these local criminal and corruption issues, satellite data analysis and a 2010 FAO report finds India has added over 4 million hectares of forest cover, a 7% increase, between 1990 and 2010.[13]
Forest rights[edit]
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In 1969, forestry in India underwent a major change with the passage of the Forest Rights Act, a new legislation that sought to address the needs of forest dwelling communities that resulted from the failure to record their rights over forest land and resources. It also sought to bring in new forms of community conservation.[citation needed]
Gallery[edit]
Indian peafowl spotted at Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary in Visakhapatnam
Chestnut headed bee-eaters, found in Himalayan forests of India
Hinglajgarh Forest in Madhya Pradesh
Forest cover of Aravalli range in Rajasthan
Mahua seeds, a forest product, are a rich oil source, used for skin care, to make soap, veggie butter and fuel oil.
Tendu leaf, used to make rural cigarettes
Forests of Kerala near Athirappalli Waterfalls
Dry Forests in Andhra Pradesh
Mangrove forests of West Bengal
Tea plantations of Munnar Kerala amidst its forests
Forest cover in Lakshadweep
See also[edit]
Wildlife of India
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
List of forest research institutes
List of forestry technical schools
List of forestry universities and colleges
Arid Forest Research Institute (Afri)
Reserved forests and protected forests of India
Social forestry in India
Communal forests of India
Protected areas of India
Van Vigyan Kendra (VVK) Forest Science Centres
Mafia raj
Nelapattu
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Marie-Philip Poulin
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Marie-Philip Poulin
Poulin playing for the Montreal Stars in 2008
Born
(1991-03-28) March 28, 1991 (age 27)
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Height
5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight
161 lb (73 kg; 11 st 7 lb)
Position
Forward
Shoots
Left
CWHL team
Former teams
Les Canadiennes de Montreal
Dawson College Blues
Boston University
National team
Canada
Playing career
2007–present
Medal record[hide]
Olympic Games
2010 Vancouver Team
2014 Sochi Team
2018 Pyeongchang Team
World Championships
2012 United States
2009 Finland
2011 Switzerland
2013 Canada
2015 Sweden
2016 Canada
2017 United States
World U18 Championships
2008 Canada
Marie-Philip Poulin-Nadeau (born March 28, 1991) is a Canadian ice hockey forward, playing for Les Canadiennes de Montreal. Poulin was a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey teams that won the gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and had previously played for the team Dawson College Blues. She has been referred to as the Sidney Crosby of women's hockey for her high level of achievement at a young age.[1] She has the unique distinction of having scored the game winning goal in the gold medal games in the first two Olympics in which she competed. She also scored the second goal to give the Canadians the lead in the 2018 Winter Olympics gold medal game until Monique Lamoureux tied the game with 6:21 remaining.
Contents
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1 Playing career
1.1 Montreal Stars
1.2 Hockey Canada
1.3 Boston University
1.4 Les Canadiennes de Montreal
2 Awards and honours
2.1 AA
2.2 CWHL
2.3 NCAA
2.3.1 Hockey East
2.4 IIHF and Olympics
3 Career statistics
3.1 Hockey Canada
4 References
5 External links
Playing career[edit]
Montreal Stars[edit]
Poulin spent 2007–08 with the Montreal Stars of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. She appeared in only 16 games, but managed to lead all rookies in scoring with 22 goals and 21 assists. So dominant was she in half a season as a 16-year-old rookie that she finished runner up in the CWHL Most Valuable Player vote by club captains. She was also a recipient of the Montreal Canadiens scholarship program in January 2008.[2] In 2008–09, she played with her school team (Dawson College), but also played as an associate player with the Stars. At year's end, she helped the Stars win the Clarkson Cup over the Minnesota Whitecaps in Kingston, Ontario in March 2009. In the championship game, she assisted on a goal by Caroline Ouellette.[3]
Hockey Canada[edit]
At the age of sixteen years, she made her Team Canada debut with the Under-18 national team during a three-game exhibition series in Prince George, BC between Canada and the United States in the fall of 2007. Playing for Canada Red, Poulin racked up four goals and one assist in two games against Sweden's national women's team, the 2006 Olympic silver medalists. Her 2.5 points per game put her atop the all-time list for the national women's team.[4]
She participated at the 2008 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in Calgary and was Canada's leading scorer. In a January 9, 2008 contest versus Germany (contested at the inaugural World Women's Under-18 hockey championship), Poulin notched one goal and two assists in a 10–1 win.[5] She was part of the team that won a silver medal. She finished the tournament with eight goals and six assists in five games.[6] In two seasons with Canada's national women's under-18 team, Poulin became the all-time leading scorer in U18 team history with 31 points in 17 games. She helped Canada to back-to-back silver medals at the IIHF World Women's Under-18 Championship in 2008 and 2009.
She made her debut on the Canadian senior national team, earning silver at the 2009 World Championship in Hameenlinna, Finland.[6]
Poulin scored both goals during Team Canada's 2–0 win in the gold medal game against the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics. At the end of the tournament, Poulin was named to the tournament all-star team.[7] In the 2010 Four Nations Cup, she scored a hat trick vs. Finland on November 12.[8]
In a March 31, 2012 exhibition game versus the United States, Poulin assisted on a goal scored by Laura Fortino in a 1–0 win at the Ottawa Civic Centre. It was the first international goal scored by Fortino.[9] In a game versus Russia at the 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship, Poulin put in a three-point performance (one goal, two assists) in a 14–1 victory.[10] By claiming the gold medal at the 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship, Poulin (along with Catherine Ward) became the sixth and seventh members of the (not yet recognized by the IIHF) Triple Gold Club for Women (having won gold in the Olympic Games, the IIHF World Championships, and the Clarkson Cup). In August 2012, Poulin was named the captain of the Canadian Under-22 team that competed in an exhibition series versus the United States Under-22 squad in Calgary, Alberta.[11]
Poulin scored the game-tying and game-winning goals in Team Canada's 3–2 overtime win in the gold medal game against the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics (the former goal with 54.6 seconds left in regulation, the latter on a 4-on-3 power play at 8:10 of overtime).
Poulin finished the 2018 Winter Olympics with six points for Team Canada, including a goal in the Final.
Boston University[edit]
Poulin debuted with the Boston University Terriers women's ice hockey program during the 2010–11 season. On October 2, 2010, she scored the first goal of her NCAA career, during a 5–4 loss at North Dakota.[12] With her third shorthanded goal of the season on October 15, 2010, she tied BU’s single-season record for shorthanded tallies in just four games. She led all NCAA freshmen in goals (9) and points per game (2.00) during October 2010. In addition, she led all Hockey East freshmen in goals, assists and points, and ranked during the month. She was ranked first among all Hockey East players in shorthanded goals with three. In the first seven games of her NCAA career, she had a seven-game point-scoring streak consisting of nine goals and seven assists.[13] On December 7 and 10, two wins over Northeastern and Harvard, Poulin registered three goals. In both games, she had a total of 11 shots on goal and a +2 rating. On December 10, she scored two goals and a game-high eight shots as BU prevailed by a 5–3 mark over Harvard.
On January 15 and 16, 2011, Poulin recorded five points (2 goals, 3 assists) in BU's two wins over Boston College and Maine. Against BC, Poulin notched a power-play goal and two assists. Versus the Maine Black Bears, she registered a goal and an assist.[14] On January 22, 2011, Poulin recorded a hat trick, including two power play goals as BU prevailed over Vermont in a 4–0 win. The win was the Terriers 100th win in program history. Poulin broke BU’s single-season points record with her second goal of the game and later tied the single-season goals record with her third marker.[15] She became the first Terriers player to be honoured as Hockey East Rookie of the Year in March 2011.[16] A fracture of the shoulder will not hold her outside the action this 2011–12 season.[17]
On May 11, 2012, Terriers head coach Brian Durocher announced that the captains for the 2012–13 campaign would be Poulin and Jill Cardella.[18] For the 2014–15 Boston University Terriers women's ice hockey season, Poulin was appointed team captain.[19] As captain, she would lead the team to its fourth consecutive Hockey East championship. In the aftermath of the 2015 Hockey East tournament, she would join Shannon Doyle and fellow Montreal resident Kayla Tutino on the All-Tournament Team.[20]
Les Canadiennes de Montreal[edit]
Poulin returned to the CWHL in the autumn of 2015. Selected in the 2015 CWHL Draft, Poulin would finish the season as the recipient of the Angela James Bowl. At the conclusion of the 2015–16 CWHL season, she was the inaugural winner of the Jayna Hefford Trophy.[21]
Poulin scored two goals in the 2017 Clarkson Cup final in Ottawa.
Poulin decided not to return to Les Canadiennes after the Olympics for the run up to the 2018 Clarkson Cup.
Awards and honours[edit]
AA[edit]
2008–09 Player of the Year Award: Ligue de hockey féminin collégial AA
2008–09 Rookie of the Year Award: Ligue de hockey féminin collégial AA [22]
CWHL[edit]
CWHL Outstanding Rookie (2007–08, unanimous selection)
CWHL All-Rookie Team (2007–08)
CWHL Eastern All Stars (2007–08)
CWHL Monthly Top Scorer (October 2007)
NCAA[edit]
2011 Patty Kazmaier Award Nominee[23]
2011 New England Women's Division I All-Star selection[24]
2015 Patty Kazmaier Award Top-3 Finalist
2015 CCM Hockey Women's Division I All-Americans, First Team[25]
Hockey East[edit]
Hockey East Pure Hockey Player of the Week (Week of October 18, 2010)[26]
Hockey East Rookie of the Month (October 2010)[13]
Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week (Week of December 13, 2010) [27]
Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week, (Week of January 3, 2011)[28]
Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week (Week of January 17, 2011)[14]
Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week (Week of January 24, 2011)
Hockey East Player of the Month (January 2011) [29]
2011 Hockey East All-Rookie Team (unanimous selection)[30]
2011 Hockey East Rookie of the Year
Hockey East Player of the Month (January 2015) [31]
Hockey East Player of the Month (February 2015) [32]
2014-15 Hockey East First Team All-Star[33]
IIHF and Olympics[edit]
IIHF Women's World Hockey Championship silver medallist (2008, 2009)[34]
Directorate Award, Best Forward, 2008 IIHF Under 18 Women's World Championships[35]
4 Nations Cup gold medallist (2009)
Member Gold Medal winning Canadian Olympic Team 2010, 2014
Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Media All-Star Team[36]
Scored both goals in a 2-0 win in the Gold medal final game versus the United States at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
Scored game-tying goal in final minute and game-winning goal in overtime in the Gold medal final game versus the United States at the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
Career statistics[edit]
Hockey Canada[edit]
Event Games Goals Assists Points PIM
2007 National Fall Festival 6 7 2 9 2
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "Creation of the Montreal Canadiens Scholarship Program". NHL.com.
Jump up ^ CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2009/03/21/sp-hockey-clarkson-cup.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Jump up ^ "The Official Website of Hockey Canada". www.hockeycanada.ca.
Jump up ^ http://www.sportsnet.ca/more/2008/01/09/cda-women-u18-0/
^ Jump up to: a b "Sports News, Opinion, Scores, Schedules - TSN". TSN.
Jump up ^ Hunter, Paul (February 25, 2010). "Canadian women beat U.S. for hockey gold". Toronto Star. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
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Jump up ^ "The Official Website of Hockey Canada". www.hockeycanada.ca.
Jump up ^ https://reports.iihf.hockey/Hydra/271/IHW271A10_74_4_0.pdf
Jump up ^ "The Official Website of Hockey Canada". www.hockeycanada.ca.
Jump up ^ "Official Website of the Boston University Department of Athletics – Women's Ice Hockey".
^ Jump up to: a b Hockeyeastonline.Com – Monthly Honors: Bc'S Kelli Stack Tabbed Whea Player Of The Month For October Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
^ Jump up to: a b http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/women/pres1011/201101/jan17wwr.pdf
Jump up ^ http://hockeyeastonline.com/women/pres1011/201101/jan24wwr.pdf
Jump up ^ HockeyEastOnline.com – BC'S KELLI STACK NAMED 2011 PURE HOCKEY PLAYER OF THE YEAR Archived July 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ (in French) La guigne s'acharne sur Marie-Philip Poulin
Jump up ^ "Cardella, Poulin Named Co-Captains at Women's Hockey Banquet - Boston University". Boston University.
Jump up ^ "Poulin Named 2014-15 Women's Ice Hockey Captain - Boston University". Boston University.
Jump up ^ "DYNASTY: Terriers Win Fourth Straight Hockey East Championship". Boston University Terriers Athletics. 2015-03-08. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
Jump up ^ "Rise of professional hockey leagues a boon to women's game". Kamloops This Week. 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
Jump up ^ (French) Les Étoiles du hockey collégial féminin dévoilées: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
Jump up ^ "WCHA.com - WCHA Press Releases". www.wcha.com.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Four Gophers Earn All-American Status".
Jump up ^ HockeyEastOnline.com – WEEKLY RELEASE: NO. 7 BC SWEEPS AT VERMONT; UNH, PC EACH PICK UP TWO WINS IN NY Archived January 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ HockeyEastOnline.com – WEEKLY RELEASE: NO. 4 BOSTON U. WINS TWO GAMES; UNH BLANKS DARTMOUTH Archived January 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/women/pres1011/201101/jan3wwr.pdf
Jump up ^ Hockeyeastonline.Com – Monthly Honors: Bu'S Poulin Garners Whea Player Of The Month For January Archived February 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ HockeyEastOnline.com – WHEA ANNOUNCES 2011 ALL-ROOKIE TEAM HONOREES Archived August 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
Jump up ^ "Sports News, Opinion, Scores, Schedules - TSN". TSN.
Jump up ^ Hockey Canada – IIHF DIRECTORATE AWARDS AND MOST VALUABLE PLAYER – IIHF WORLD WOMEN'S UNDER-18 CHAMPIONSHIP Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Meghan Agosta named MVP Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
External links[edit]
Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
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