Sentences with phrase «among open landscapes»

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Twenty - three species at risk in Canada (COSEWIC 2012) are among the potentially vulnerable species identified; all of these birds nest on or close to the ground in open landscapes in southern Canada, two on islands.

Criterion (vii): The Kenya Lake System presents an exceptional range of geological and biological processes of exceptional natural beauty, including falls, geysers, hot springs, open waters and marshes, forests and open grasslands concentrated in a relatively small area and set among the landscape backdrop of the Great Rift Valley.

Small villages are scattered among a landscape devoted to farming, covered in forests or opening to windswept coastal plains.

With the emirate benefitting from diverse landscape — including the Hajar Mountains and Jebel Jais — it has already built a following among walkers, hikers and cyclists with the campaign taking a leap forward in 2016 with the opening of the highly successful Jebel Jais Via Ferrata (Iron Path), hiking, climbing and ziplining product.

Among the 350 cars, several new vehicle classes have been added to reflect these varied landscapes, including class 10 open wheel buggies and extreme offroaders.

Another focal point of the launch was the opening of Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, featuring a selection of close to 40 works from Evans» legacy collection of African American art - from 19th - century landscape paintings of the Hudson River School to works by masters of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as examples from the Federal Art Project of the 1930s and later 20th - century works by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, among others.

They might include towering industrial landscapes by Edward Burtynsky with Koch and, among Discoveries, garage interiors wide open to the light by Mark Lyon or walls as visual collage by Andy Mattern, both with Elizabeth Houston.

Land Art emerged in the 1970s when a handful of New York's more adventurous artists departed the gallery scene to make work in the open landscapes of the American West — Robert Smithson, James Turrell and Walter De Maria among them.

Streamside Day opens in an idyllic rural landscape, where we see a deer and its fawn among green pastures.

Inspired by the rural Cumbrian landscape, he began to incorporate natural objects into his work, as shown in a group of small sculptures including Untitled (Opening Blossom) 1942 — 5 which he considered to be among his finest British pieces.

The project included the expansions of existing vacant buildings to house Dick's Sporting Goods and Nordstrom Rack stores; site and landscaping improvements throughout the property; a shell expansion, building façade and storefront improvements for an existing Michaels store and the opening of a new drive - thru Starbucks, among other things.