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Vegetation of Southeast Asia Studies of Forest Types 1963-1965

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Figure 102.-Bamboo brake (Dendrocalamus strictus). Mobility in this<br />

type <strong>of</strong> vegetation is somewhat difficult. <strong>Forest</strong> Station near Tak,<br />

northwestern Thailand. Jan. 19&4-.<br />

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Figure 103.-Rice paddies northeast <strong>of</strong> Bangkok. Part <strong>of</strong> crop (light<br />

colored) has already been harvested. Hamlets and farm-houses are<br />

surrounded by bamboos, especially Bambusa blumenea and Thyrsostachys<br />

siamensis, for windbreak, and fruit trees. Moving objects, can readily<br />

be detected from the air, whether in harvested or unharvested rice<br />

patches, and craft traveling on the 'khlongs 1 (man-made canals).<br />

Near Saraburi, central plain. Nov. <strong>1963</strong>.<br />

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