Sentences with phrase «lakes regions around»

There are of course other areas of the country that produce very fine wines, including the Great Lakes regions around the state of Michigan, and the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado.

Not exact matches

A jog or stroll around the actual Silver Lake reservoir itself is always nice, and the region is home to many quaint and classic little homes, but really you move to Silver Lake because you want lots of stuff to do a short walk away.

While Jesus is teaching and healing around the lake region in Galilee, some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem come north to investigate the popular rabbi - healer.

The Great Lakes region leads the nation in flavored milk consumption, but 2011's total U.S. beverage milk sales registered around 6 billion gallons, the nation's lowest level since 1984, according to the USDA.

The proposal calls for a 34,000 square - foot building, with docks, a floating classroom and a 4,000 square - foot exhibition hall highlighting the history of the region's Native Americans and the industrial history around Onondaga Lake.

Thursday night, the National Weather Service called for winds around 60 miles per hour in some parts of the region, and Greece residents say with the lake levels so high, it's the waves from the wind that cause the most damage.

SCHROON LAKE — Officials here have begun a waterfront revitalization plan they hope will improve access to Schroon and Paradox lakes as well as increase use of the smaller ponds located on state land around the region.

«The report is an important reminder to the U.S. Congress and next president to support programs like the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that are accelerating the cleanup of toxic hotspots around the region,» Skelding said.

This footprint is around 20,000 years old and was found in the Willandra Lakes Region of New South Wales, Australia.

Researchers in the US have found evidence from lake sediments that the driest conditions for 7000 years hit the region around AD 900.

The excavation of hundreds of kilometers from coast to coast, traversing Lake Nicaragua, the largest drinking - water reservoir in the region, will destroy around 400,000 hectares of rainforests and wetlands.

«With Lake Mead at its lowest level ever, we wanted to explore whether the basin, like most other regions around the world, was relying on groundwater to make up for the limited surface - water supply.

The hybridization event probably took place around 150,000 years ago, when — during a wet period — a Congolese lineage colonized the Lake Victoria region and encountered representatives of the Upper Nile lineage.

Like New Mexico, the region around Lake Baikal in central Siberia is a land of enchantment and exploitation, offering a beautiful landscape rich with sites held sacred by the indigenous communities of the region and a target for international tourism and resource development efforts.

Several carriers offer daily flights in and around the Lake Turkana region:

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

In fact, the diverse landscape around Portland includes mountains, rivers, rainforests, and lakes, making it a fantastic region to explore during the pleasant summer.

There are great tracks around the lake ideal for bikers and hikers and all with wonderful views of this alpine region.

Then the best place to practice Spanish is outside the classroom around the Lake Atitlan area as well as visits to other highlights in the region.

Great Lake Taupo is the timeshare capital of New Zealand with 26 timeshare resorts in and around Taupo and in the region.

The Picos Region extends from the shadow of the ancient volcano of the Água de Pau Massif (known locally for the lake that rests within its volcanic crater: Lagoa do Fogo) until the area around the Sete Cidades caldera.

Situated at an altitude of around 12,400 ft, the lake offers one of the best landscapes in the region.

Most likely the first inhabitants of the region settled down during the late pre-classic period (ca. 200 bc) in small villages around the lakes.

Around 500 species call the lake home and are adapted to Titicaca's unusual conditions, such as the giant Titicaca water frog with its flaps of skin suited to absorb the region's limited oxygen.

Option Two — Travel inland to the Great Ocean Road hinterland, a region of contrasts from lush temperate forests to massive volcanic plains, soaring cliffs, rugged mountains giving way to rolling hills with pine plantations, wide expanses of farmland around ancient landmarks from blunted caps of extinct volcanoes to floating islands and massive lakes.

Modern fully equipped holiday unit, for up to four people, in quiet location close to the lake, with beautiful views, centrally situated for day trips around the region.

See the region around Island Lagoon and Lake Hart, before following the Stuart Highway, as you make your way further into the outback plains to the world famous opal region of Coober Pedy.

The landscape and climate in this region is completely different from the volcanoes and mountains that surround the areas around Antigua and Lake Atitlan and the moderate spring - like temperatures that it experiences year - round.

Basic listings on www.GreatLakeTaupo.com for accommodation in the Great Lake Taupo region are absolutely FREE and will help you reach around 65,000 visitors to the website every month.

Many of the region's activities are centred on and around Lake Taupo and the Tongariro River, including scenic cruises, kayaking adventures, sailing trips, parasailing, jet skiing, trout fishing and boating.

The van load of travel bloggers visiting the region from around the world were all famished and we were all looking forward to an Italian feast in one of the oldest trattorias in Peschiera at Lake Garda.

Although I don't know of academic studies, a better vineyard proxy, with fewer confounding factors than uk, might be the recent history of Okananagan, B.C. wine region, in which vinifera plantings have generally spread northward around a 70 - mile long lake.

Years ago, I pushed the idea of developing a reality - TV show, «Extremities,» on science at the edge of what's possible, sort of Mythbusters with a rotating cast that'd include biologists climbing cliffs in Greenland to study nesting falcons, the team I joined on the sea ice near the North Pole and — certainly — scientists driving around Oswego, N.Y., with portable Doppler radars to plumb the innards of storms that produce that region's astounding lake - effect snow, one result of which is depicted in this photo (NOAA):

If people have a genuine interest in these lakes than they surely would acknowledge largest stakeholders to be living around the great lakes region, not the occasional scientist from outside doing his own thing on his own agenda.

... there were increases in flood risk around the upper Midwest / Great Lakes region and decreases on the Gulf Coastal Plain, the southeastern United States, and California.

Gradual, insolation - driven millennial - scale temperature trends in the study area were punctuated by several abrupt climate changes, including a major transient event recorded in all five lakes between 4.3 and 3.2 ka, which overlaps in timing with abrupt climate changes previously documented around the North Atlantic region and farther afield at w4.2 ka.

Looking at charcoal fragments from 14 deep lakes in the region, scientists were able to reconstruct the fire history of this particular forest, which covers around 2,000 square kilometers.

While not all this population lives immediately adjacent to the lake, I'd be willing to bet the increase in population around the lake was probably at least proportionate to the population increase in the entire region.

If you want a better idea of the population explosion in the region around Lake Tanganyika, the original «Tanganyika» was comprised of only part of the countries surrounding Lake Tanganyika.

In his address to the gathering, Pakistan Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan said that people in Pakistan living in around the HKH region are annually affected by a number of climate hazards such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFS), avalanches, landslides and heat waves, which result in massive human and material losses.

Having successfully pushed for the Ontario Offshore Moratorium, and her organizations having effected the moratoria for two cities near Toronto and the largest regional conservation authority in Ontario (Toronto and Region Conservation Authority), she is now working with other Ontario groups, such as Manitoulin and Central Huron and other vulnerable and at - risk communities around the Great Lakes and Basin.

There is the wine making region in the hills around Maribor to see and Triglav National Park with its mountains, lakes and rivers which flow out the Adriatic and Black Sea.