Sentences with phrase «from grazed land»

Furthermore, when America was colonised there was nothing there to support a civilised way of life, and every bit of infrastructure apart from grazed land had to be built by the settlers themselves.

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Third, the annual federal costs... exceed the annual revenues generated from federal grazing lands.

Surely ranchers paying 1 / 10th the going rate for grazing land know they don't own it and have no business subleasing or re-selling it at private rates or accepting entry fees from resource companies and not passing the benefits back to the land owner (us).

It's been happening all along for the last several decades as big ag devastated environments from the Gulf of Mexico to the cattle grazing lands of the mid-West.

Across the «middle belt» that separates Nigeria's north from its south, nomadic ethnic Fulani herdsmen, mostly Muslim, have clashed with indigenous, mostly Christian farmers over grazing land for generations, and the conflicts have intensified since 2011, according to the report.

It was made from milk from the cows grazing on the school's land.

Meanwhile the herd of 220 grass - fed cows with their calves are moved from a two - and - a-half-hectare section of the paddock to another every day, to allow the grazed land to regenerate.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that if compost were applied over 5 % of the state's grazing lands, the soil could capture a year's worth of greenhouse gas emissions from California's farm and forestry industries, or the equivalent of removing 6 million cars from the road.

Emissions from revegetation, forest management, and cropland and grazing land management — while not currently counted towards Australia's obligations under the Kyoto Protocol target — are eligible for the generation of carbon offset credits under NCOS.

With millions of pounds of 1080 - treated baits on Western lands, one ponders the issue of how much of this poison is absorbed by grazing livestock from contaminated grasses, and subsequently transferred to human stomachs in a leg of lamb or roast of beef.»

Apart from their activities of grazing their cattle on farm land and forest reserves, the herdsmen are also alleged to be into all sorts of crimes including armed robbery, rape, Stealing, burning of farms and worst of it all, killing of farmers».

«We are calling on foreigners who came from other parts of the world to graze their cattle on our lands to go back and allow the traditional Fulani herders who have lived with us for many years to remain.

The governor who assured all its citizens, especially those from the Eastern Senatorial Zone that no Bill has been sent to Kogi State House of Assembly in that regard, specifically said the decision was in line with the 1965 Northern Nigeria Government Grazing Reserve Law and modified 1978 Land Use Decree of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday stated that the Federal Government lacked the powers to seize land from states for the establishment of grazing reserves or livestock production centres.

Osinbajo said apart from states that had gazetted grazing areas, 13 states had agreed to allocate 5,000 hectares of land for ranching or livestock production.

He cited an experiment he conducted in the 1950s in the country then known as Rhodesia, when he helped exterminate more than 40,000 grazing elephants to protect land thought to be stressed and dying from their annual trampling rituals.

Eating meat from animals grazed on land treated with commonly - used agricultural fertilizers might have serious implications for pregnant women and the future reproductive health of their unborn children, according to a new study involving sheep.

Growing meat from single cells could reduce the opportunity for disease and contaminants to enter the food supply and eliminate the environmental impact (such as clearing Amazon rain forest to create grazing land) of raising livestock.

In Kubuqi, the meaning of «desert» has been redefined: flocks of sheep and cattle are grazing amidst solar panels that pump electricity into the power grid, plentiful local organic produce is supplied across China and the wonder of barren land turned into a fruitful garden attracts many visitors from afar.

Importantly, land designated for growing grasses would come primarily from land used for grazing or land that's not being used at all — in other words, food prices would be largely unaffected under both scenarios.

The projected transition of livestock systems from pure grazing diets to diets supplemented by higher quality feeds will cut greenhouse gas emissions from land use change globally by as much as 23 % by 2030, while improving food availability and farmers» income, shows new IIASA research.

The grandular are made from toxin - free lyophilized glands from animals grazed on range land in New Zealand and are free of pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics or chemical additives.

The Raven owned the worst land, which was the dry, rocky hillside around the fort, and took a cut from the goatherds who went up there to graze with their flocks.

Tree - planting projects frequently meet resistance from local people because land that could be grazed or farmed is converted to forest.

From the former grazing land, you look out over a scene from the California of a century ago: a windmill, pastoral slopes dotted with cows, the unspoiled beauty of the southern Santa Lucia MountaFrom the former grazing land, you look out over a scene from the California of a century ago: a windmill, pastoral slopes dotted with cows, the unspoiled beauty of the southern Santa Lucia Mountafrom the California of a century ago: a windmill, pastoral slopes dotted with cows, the unspoiled beauty of the southern Santa Lucia Mountains.

Travel to Kelly Hill Conservation Park and watch as kangaroos emerge from the shelter of the bush land at dusk to graze out on the open pastures.

The trail uses technology that will help protect the natural environment, Mark and Tracy said, such as using raised bridges in areas where land is fragile and moving a fence that is currently cutting off an elk herd from grazing in its normal grounds.

Susac lighthouse was built in 1878 on the highest point of the extremely steep southern side of the island, where steep... on the northern side of the island that can be reached from the sea by diving through a cave at a depth of some fifteen meters... to the island due to the specific grazing land...

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

It is deeply disturbing that unnamed federal law enforcement officials pointed to the nonviolent «resolution» of the 2014 Cliven Bundy stand - off — in which the feds backed down from seizing his cattle illegally grazing for more than a decade on national park and desert range lands — as a «success» and a model for handling the current situation in eastern Oregon.

Obviously there can be some combination of forest sinks, and crop land / grazing land related sinks, and it all varies from country to country depending on geography etc..

The taller and denser vegetation uses up more carbon from the atmosphere, changes the amount and composition of forage for grazing animals, and also alters the partitioning and distribution of energy and heat at the land surface.

Much of Montana's past wealth and prosperity was built on exploitation of its abundant natural resources, from copper and timber in the west to coal and grazing lands in the east to oil and gas on the Rocky Mountain Front.

Four additional carbon offset methodologies are currently in ACR's approval process for publication in 2013 including California and Mid-South modules for Emission Reductions in Rice Production, a modular approach to Grazing Land and Livestock Management in beef and dairy production, a methodology for Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to commodity crop production, and a methodology for quantifying emissions reductions from Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs.

If we stopped letting cattle graze on federal land and allowed the vegetation there to naturally regrow, we'd save on emissions from lowered beef production and increase the capacity of the land to serve as a carbon sink.

Returning carbon to soils and ecosystems has major benefits in addition to offsetting anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel combustion, land use conversion, soil cultivation, continuous grazing and cement manufacturing.

«While we understand and appreciate the attractiveness for building dams for electricity as green energy, we need to recognize the impact of these «green developments» on local communities; from increasing poverty because of loss of lands, to increased conflicts over less grazing and water,» said Angelei who continues to advocate for dam - affected peoples.

In constructing a model for some system, like a grazing land, we had some relations from the literature to use, but to make it complete we often had to make up something — «let's assume X».

Ecosystem changes to pastoral lands, such as a shift from grass to woodland savannas as levels of carbon dioxide increase, could reduce food for grazing cattle.

Indeed Tim if you want to go to catchment modification theories — well tree clearing for agriculture and grazing ought be giving us more runoff in one respect but perhaps changes in land surface feedbacks from land development may have also made a contribution to a warmer drier climate as this preliminary research shows.

Most of the dust that's settling in places like the San Juan mountains comes from the desert southwest, from land disturbances like farming, oil and gas drilling, cattle grazing, recreation and residential development on the southern end of the Colorado Plateau.

With these land titles, the indigenous peoples of northern Tanzania can fend off agricultural incursions into their grazing areas and keep unscrupulous safari companies from seizing their land.

We stopped by his grazing lands in Simanjiro so he could tend to his goat herd; a much needed break from both his demanding duties hosting the Prize film crew and Maasai council meetings.