In
clearing vast tracts of land, those prolific loggers released so much sand and dirt that open - water bays turned into swamps.
Not exact matches
The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated
vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for
clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing
land - cattle fiefs.
Vast tracts of land were
cleared of forest cover and given over to tobacco plantations which changed drainage patterns and coastal aquifer recharge rates.
The country has
vast tracts of pasture and agricultural
land that are being underutilized or have been abandoned, but rapidly appreciating
land prices, coupled with poor governance and inconsistent enforcement
of environmental laws, means that it is often more profitable to
clear new forest
land than to rehabilitate pasture.