Sentences with phrase «lakes region over»

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An environmental watering program has been undertaken at two wetlands in the Mallee region, Cardross Lakes and Lake Koorlong, for over ten years to maintain stable Murray hardyhead populations.

«If she gets elected her very first vote would turn our entire state government over to Bill de Blasio and the New York City Democrats, and shift important resources to New York City at the expense of the Finger Lakes Region and the Southern Tier.

Former EPA Region II Administrator Judith Enck, who oversaw the Onondaga Lake cleanup for eight years, maintains Honeywell's job there is far from over — no matter what the state and the company say.

The awards ranged from over $ 80 million for the Rochester - Finger Lakes Region, Capital Region, Mohawk Valley, New York City and the Mid-Hudson Valley to over $ 60 million each for Western New York, the Southern Tier, Central New York, the North Country and Long Island.

The panel — which is composed of Law, former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paul Francis, Dennis Glazer and Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz — has heard presentations over the last several months from developers who want to build resort - style casinos in three regions of the state north New York City: The Catskills / Hudson Valley, the Capital Region and the Finger Lakes / Southern Tier.

He recalled that a research conducted by a professor in a London university and published over three decades ago had predicted that unless one or some of the rivers from the Central African region are diverted to empty into the Lake Chad basin, the river would dry up.

The Trump Administration's proposed budget is out — and it eliminates the $ 300 million in annual funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), which finances environmental projects all over the region.

the narrator in the North Country region's video presentation said, citing the historic win of the U.S. hockey team over the then Soviet Union in 1980 in Lake Placid.

While top honors instead went to Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier, the region did lock in $ 85.1 million in regional economic development funds on Thursday, bringing the total over a five - year period to nearly a half - billion in state investment.

Most upstate regions saw wage growth that outpaced inflation during the period, and the Finger Lakes had the highest average annual wages among the upstate regions, at just over $ 63,000.

The comptroller's report shows that the Capital Region saw the strongest job growth over the seven year period, with the Finger Lakes (including the Rochester area), coming in with the second - biggest gain in total employment, up about 9,500 jobs.

The region was essentially passed over for a casino project that same day as the hydrofracking announcement was made in the governor's year - end cabinet meeting, with the state's gaming facility location board awarding the project bid to a development proposal in Seneca County in the Finger Lakes region.

Three of seven regions — the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes and Center New York — received $ 500 million over the next five years in the Upstate Revitalization Initiative competition, which critics called the «Hunger Games» because it pitted areas of the state against one another, creating clear winners and losers.

The three winning regions Rochester - Finger Lakes, Central New York, and the Southern Tier, each received $ 500 million dollars each in economic development money, phased in over a five year period.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Vernon Downs owner Jeff Gural said today he was shocked a state panel recommended another casino for the Finger Lakes region while passing over his proposal for the Southern Tier.

The three winning regions Rochester - Finger Lakes, central New York, and the Southern Tier, each received $ 500 million each in economic development money, phased in over a five - year period.

Fracking supporters in the Southern Tier felt doubly neglected when, on the same day as the hydrofracking decision, state officials announced they would locate a resort casino marked for the region in the northern Finger Lakes, passing over a proposal to enhance an existing facility at Tioga Downs.

For over a decade it has provided scientific attention to the preservation, protection and promotion of our Finger Lakes, the most important natural resource of our region,» he noted.

He said, «The Lake Chad Basin for example, has shrunk to a mere 10 per cent of its original size, and this has seriously affected the livelihood of over five million people and contributed to the growth of insecurity in the region, including the emergence of Boko Haram as a terrorist group.

In addition, they are looking for traces of rivers, lakes, and saltwater bays, which will reveal the region's climate over the course of 2 to 3 million years.

Water and Power «The Roosevelt Dam in southern Arizona, recently completed, contains over 350,000 cubic yards of masonry, and forms the largest artificial reservoir now in existence; the construction of this reservoir required the expenditure of nearly $ 300,000 in wagon roads alone, to make the region accessible and to replace public roads submerged by the artificial lake.»

Colorectal cancers: Advanced cancer diagnoses increased in San Diego - Imperial and Northern California counties, decreased in the San Francisco Bay Area, Inland Empire and Central Valley regions, and remained unchanged and persistently high in Sacramento, Placer, Mendocino, Lake, Lassen - Modoc - Plumas and Santa Cruz counties over time.

Because the Sea of Galilee is a tectonically active region, the bottom of the lake, and therefore the structure, may have shifted over time.

«For example, in the Sierra and Lake Tahoe you may see a yearly pattern of humid air masses moving over the region, so plans should be made with these regional patterns in mind.

The well - known Australopithecus afarensis fossil we call Lucy, for example, lived a little over 3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, roughly 700 miles northeast of Lake Turkana.

«History tells us that ponds tend to enlarge over hundreds of years and eventually become lakes; ponds shape much of this landscape in the long run, and with no ponds there will be no lakes for this region.»

At Argonne it will give way, over the next 20 to 30 years, to ecological restoration, as the pollutants are removed and the worker trees replaced by bur oaks and other hardwoods native to the Great Lakes region — trees that grow slowly and draw only a fraction of the water taken up by the hasty, thirsty poplars and willows.

But for some reason, the terrain beneath the trough slowly gained elevation over millions of years, and those lakes gradually gave way to a long - lived region of wetlands covering an area the size of Egypt or larger.

There are over 30 hiking trails in the lakes region, as well as many options for both the casual and more serious cyclist.

The Finger Lakes Region has seen many changes over the past years but quality living at Collett Woods Townhouses is as perfect as ever.

The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe region, which wraps around Lake Ontario from Toronto to Niagara Falls and totals over 8.

We serve clients from all over the southeastern Michigan region and the greater Detroit area, including Waterford, White Lake, Clarkston, West Bloomfield, Flint, and Brighton, MI.

For over 50 years, LADS has been committed to the independent pet specialty channel, and with the need and opportunity for a distributor with an independent retailer focus in the Great Lakes and New England regions, LADS has decided to expand.

The Rara Lake Trek is the most prominent hike in the region and can be trekked over a variety of routes.

Watch the sunset over stunning Lake Bled, sample some of region's best wines and cuisine, and experience the unusual and engaging cultural blend of some of Central Europe's least - discovered landscapes.

Surrounded by the craggy peaks of the Remarkables and fringed by Lake Wakatipu's sapphire waters, Queenstown provides access to the region's splendid landscapes, carved over thousands of years by slow - moving glaciers.

The Finger Lakes region has been active in reform and utopian movements over the years and it was at Seneca Falls village that the first women's rights convention was held marking the birth of the women's suffrage movement.

Additionally, the Finger Lakes region is New York's largest wine producing region with over 100 wineries and vineyards meaning travellers can enjoy a fine tipple along with the views.

Queenstown was carved out of the land by glaciers, rivers and lakes, but it has been shaped by adventurers drawn to the region from all over the world.

GOLF: New Hampshire has over 90 golf courses with 21 in the Lakes Region.

Trails lace the region, with the 165 - mile / 265 - km Tahoe Rim Trail circling the lake in one breathtaking (sometimes literally, when it crests peaks over 9,000 feet / 2, 743 meters) loop — but don't worry, most people just do pieces of it, either on foot or by mountain bike.

Highlights: * Hawkesbury River — morning tea overlooking one of Australia's most scenic rivers, * Wine tasting throughout the Hunter Region, * Winery Tour — learn about the wine making process, * Cheese tasting, * Lookouts over the Hunter Valley, * Historical Towns, * Lake Macquarie — Australia's largest salt - water lake, * Relaxing picnic lunch with views of the Hunter ValLake Macquarie — Australia's largest salt - water lake, * Relaxing picnic lunch with views of the Hunter Vallake, * Relaxing picnic lunch with views of the Hunter Valley.

So close to Sydney yet truly a world away, the Hunter Valley is the birthplace of Australian wine with over 150 premium wine producers holding a very special place in the world wine industry, and Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort has been a part of this historic wine region from the beginning.

One of the Hunter Valley's most popular resort properties, Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort, is commemorating a very special milestone in style this month, by taking to the skies over the renowned wine region.

With regular trains travelling to and from Milan in just over 30 minutes, the city of Como is the perfect base from which to explore the lake and the wider Lombardy region.

Dive with docile whale sharks, the world s largest fish, at Ningaloo Reef between April and June, swim with wild bottlenose dolphins in the warm waters of Monkey Mia and get up close to sea lions, manta rays, dugongs and humpback whales, explore the charming old pearling port of Broome and take a camel ride down Cable Beach at sunset, fly over the beehive shaped domes of the Bungle Bungle Range, boat down the huge, manmade Lake Argyle at Kununurra, explore the wineries and beaches of the Margaret River region, cruise spectacular Geikie and Windjana Gorges in the remote and rugged Kimberley, see the stark outback come alive with glorious wildflowers in winter and early spring and enjoy the sophisticated delights of Perth and the historic port of Fremantle.

October 2017 - One of the Hunter Valley's most popular resort properties, Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort, is commemorating a very special milestone in style this month, by taking to the skies over the renowned wine region.

Potentially dull races can get mixed up by the joys of a dynamic weather system so that an early drizzle could leave you trying to decide when to swap over to dry tyres, or an early lap in qualifying can land you pole position because the heaven's suddenly open and decide that the region would really be improved with a new lake.

But though the future will be a warmer one, I'd think that a winter such as we saw in the Balkans this year still wouldn't be out of the question for the Great Lakes region sometime over the next couple of decades.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,