Sentences with phrase «acres of habitat»

In 2007, the Deadman Creek Conservation Bank was established south of the City of Merced to preserve 684 acres of habitat for this adorable species.

BrightSource has had to mitigate their environmental footprint to contend with the desert tortoise by avoiding long - term impacts to 433 acres of habitat, as well as acquiring additional land off the Ivanpah site for tortoise relocation within their home range.

The 433 acres of habitat on the site and the additional mitigation land would remain available to tortoises for foraging, cover, and other lifecycle requirements.

BrightSource also has had to mitigate its environmental footprint to contend with the desert tortoise by avoiding long - term impacts to 433 acres of habitat, as well as acquiring additional land off the Ivanpah site for tortoise relocation within their home range.

The «living roof» we designed for a corporate office building in San Bruno, California, for example, creates acres of habitat for local birds and grasses.

Since 2002, this team has built and maintained 125 miles of trail, restored over 1,000 acres of habitat, protected historic batteries, created eight new overlooks, and held nine memorable benefit dinners — so far.

Since 2002, this team has built and maintained 125 miles of trail, restored over 1,000 acres of habitat, protected historic batteries, created 8 new overlooks and thrown many memorable dinners.

We conserved more than 35,800 acres of habitat, (100 % of target).

To date, the efforts we have supported have culminated in tens of thousands of acres of habitat and many miles of hedgerows.

Not exact matches

Two Landscape Management Boards (LMB) will provide participatory forest landscape governance, helping to monitor and control the surrounding 61,190 hectares (151,139 acres) of forest reserves, which are critically important habitat for the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and other species.

The removal of acres of rainforest threatens the rich biodiversity in these finely balanced ecosystems, along with the habitat of species such as the orangutan.

The environmental stewardship commitment by Halter Ranch Vineyard owner Hansjörg Wyss is demonstrated by the decision to preserve 1,700 acres of the Halter Ranch property with 18 % planted to vineyards that work in harmony with the undeveloped acres to provide habitat, wildlife corridors and biodiversity.

With respect for the natural habitat and Pechanga heritage, design and construction of the top - ranked Journey at Pechanga golf course on nearly 300 acres / 121 hectares of unique, ancestral land, preserved most native oak trees; those removed were moved and transplanted at considerable expense.

Of the 750 acres owned by Domaine Serene, only 250 are planted to vines to maintain natural habitat and balance.

In addition to attending in - store events, shoppers can purchase pollinator - friendly products that support The Xerces Society's goal of planting 100,000 acres of pollinator habitat within the next 12 to 18 months.

We're creating and improving thousands of acres of pollinator habitat in the U.S., reducing the use of agricultural pesticides and training people in pollinator conservation techniques that can save these unsung heroes of our food chain.»

The museum has transferred a family of six endangered red wolves to an expanded 1 - acre habitat at the Wolf Conservation Center of South Salem, New York.

Don't be alarmed by Animal Kingdom «s size — most of the over 500 acres is for all the animals» habitats.

Meanwhile, the Park District is renovating about 40 acres of the southern end of the man - made peninsula into a nature habitat with six interdependent ecosystems.

The Park District is also turning about 40 acres of the southern end of the man - made peninsula into a nature habitat with six interdependent ecosystems.

Drumlin Farm is a 206 - acre wildlife sanctuary with an array of natural habitats, including fields, shrublands, woodland, and wetlands.

Mass Audubon permanently protects nearly 37,000 acres of land across Massachusetts, providing important opportunities for all people to experience the wonders of nature firsthand while also safeguarding a wide range of habitats and native wildlife species.

Mass Audubon manages more than 35,000 acres of wildlife habitat across the state, ranging from barrier beaches to open fields to northern hardwood forests.

Nourishment of Dead Neck will 1) restore acres of open sand habitat for nesting birds, 2) provide a sand source to widen the Nantucket Sound beach over approximately 5 - 10 years, and 3) protect the island from breaching.

Mass Audubon partner TIDE protects the 160 - square mile Port Honduras Marine Reserve and manages 60,000 acres of wildlife habitat including the Paynes Creek National Park for the government of Belize and protected lands it owns in southern Belize.

Mass Audubon recognizes and appreciates the sporting community's contributions to wildlife management and in conserving critical wildlife habitat, including thousands of acres in Massachusetts through their federal duck stamp purchases and fees collected from Massachusetts fishing, hunting, and sporting licenses.

Spreading across more than 700 acres in Easthampton and Northampton along the western bank of the oxbow, the wildlife sanctuary offers visitors a range of landscapes and habitats attractive to birds, from marshes and meadows to grasslands and forest.

Mass Audubon works with the World Land Trust to preserve 17,000 acres of the Patagonian steppe habitat, including coastline, in Argentina.

Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary has almost 2,000 acres of protected land with extensive hiking trails through a diversity of habitats.

The San Antonio River Authority plans for the first time to burn about 13 acres on the river's southern stretch as a means of habitat restoration and preservation.

«We're going to be taking 50,000 cubic yards of dredged sentiment from the Buffalo River and utilizing it here on Unity Island to help restore 10 acres of wetland habitat, providing an access for fish and wildlife to move freely between the Niagara River and isolated water bodies here on the island,» said Lieutenant Colonel Adam Czekanski, the Army Corps of Engineers» Buffalo District Commander.

Erie County residents have a remarkable 20 + acres of natural habitat and shoreline access in an urban South Buffalo neighborhood.

There is no smell, and the 130 acres of flora provide habitat for an impressive variety of wildlife.

It's a large island, to be sure, about 1.6 million acres, but the habitat is so harsh that a successful recovery would be a herd of 300 animals.

Meanwhile, responding to pressure from environmental groups, the FWS has listed some 760,000 acres of Arizona and New Mexico as critical habitat for the jaguar.

Example: Oakland, Calif. - based BrightSource Energy Inc. last month scrapped plans to build a solar power plant on 5,130 acres in the Mojave Desert in southern California after months of protest from environmental groups concerned that the project would threaten important habitat for bighorn sheep.

Actual construction of the facility will remove approximately 16 acres of upland and 3 acres of wetland habitat, and cut off nearly 3 more acres of wetland from the sea.

(Reuters)- Conservation groups on Friday hailed a court decision that blocks Montana from building roads and logging in nearly 37,000 acres of a state forest that serves as core habitat for protected grizzly bears.

Some 500,000 acres of boreal forest in Ontario and Alberta alone — key habitat for caribou, lynx, wolves and scores of birds — are felled each year to provide pulp for disposable paper.

Setting up habitat costs around $ 600 per acre, Isaacs says, but the usda's Natural Resource Conservation Service has programs that will cover between 50 and 90 percent of the expense.

The project would include more than 980,000 acres of «bridge habitat,» or connections from one «clump» to another, said Sarah Reif, a wildlife biologist with Arizona Fish and Game.

After convening a commission of experts from various disciplines to report on the state of U.S. oceans, his administration took steps to protect 215 million acres of biologically rich deep sea ocean habitat in the Pacific near Hawaii and Guam.

This landscape - scale project involved surveying thirty sites for the presence of seven species of chaparral - dependent birds, beginning in a two - acre habitat patch created forty years earlier by development.

One ivorybill searcher, Richard Pough, helped found the Nature Conservancy, which has preserved 100 million acres of critical habitat worldwide.

Yet for all the diversity of the Ozarks, the region's natural habitats pale in comparison with the abundance of the past, when more than 4 million acres were covered with old pines, some more than 100 feet tall and almost four feet thick.

Volunteer to help monitor habitat restoration on this 1,200 - acre barrier island situated two miles east of downtown Miami and one mile southwest of Miami Beach

Another Asia - based firm, Olam International, is developing a 250,000 - acre plantation on about 741,000 acres of land with the government of Gabon that Earthsight claims is on high - value forest that includes great ape habitat.

Dubbed P - 22, that young male is now living under the Hollywood sign in Griffith Park, an oasis of 4300 acres of chaparral habitat in the middle of the city.

Dubbed P - 22, that young male is now stuck living under the Hollywood sign in Griffith Park, an oasis of 4300 acres of chaparral habitat in the middle of the city.

«Extending that — knowing it will lead to another acre of missing habitat being restored — it's just lovely.»