But Oakbank needs to raise funds to further enhance its sports facilities, which it plans to do by selling for redevelopment an area of scrubland on the school site. (educationbusinessuk.net)
If the Earth's temperature rises by 4 °C, flowering subalpine pastures could turn into desert scrubland dominated by sagebrush and other woody shrubs. (newscientist.com)
Ancient lakes near the Pacific coast of the United States, it turned out, show a shift to cold - weather plant species at roughly the time when the Younger Dryas was changing German pine forests into scrublands like those of modern Siberia. (williamcalvin.com)