Sentences with phrase «hilly land»

Your project is to design for Portland, with the functionality of Copenhagen's active transportation infrastructure with adaptions as required for Portland's hilly land character, a neighborhood to employment interconnecting system of cycle tracks to be built upon Portland's street grid, that would enable and support residents» opportunity to dispense with the use of a car for this typical day to day commute, accomplishing it with a bike instead.

Why deal with poor drainage or hilly land when you can just let cattle graze the land?

IMO the only sense in planting forests would be on hilly land that can not be used for crops or grazing lands.

Description: Bukit Jambul is renown as an outstanding natural tourist destination due to the harmonious combination of hilly land, rice fields, valleys and the beautiful sea panorama in a distance.

The commendable impulse to share good fortune and at the same time take part in wild life conservation motivated Wilkie last year when he bought 430 acres of beautiful hilly land in the Lake Geneva district of Wisconsin as a recreation area for his company's 2,000 employees.

On a clear day you can see the Adriatic Sea a few miles to the east, and in other directions the hilly land rises into central Italy where it is possible to make out small hill - top villages and other castles and fortresses.

Not exact matches

For starters, Fort McMurray features complex, hilly terrain, where the fire can spread much faster than on flat land.

The Strip District of Pittsburgh, an unusually flat strip of land in the hilly terrain of Western Pennsylvania, sits between the Allegheny River and Pittsburgh's Hill District.

Prominent among these in Australia are wealthy conservative landowners appalled by the very visible presence of the tall green - energy totems, a constant reminder of bucolic decay and the «upstairs - downstairs» disdain they have for those needing income from their often hilly, poorer quality land.

We joined Land Rover product engineers on a dusty, rocky trail in California's San Gabriel Mountains and again two weeks later to drive a greasy, partially flooded logging trail through the hilly forests of eastern Canada, near Montreal.

The wine in that fine old bottle had been produced from grapes harvested in the year Cezare Giambelli had established the Castello di Giambelli winery on a hilly patch of land north of Venice.

There was a multitude of undeveloped land just across the highway, but it was hilly terrain filled with coulees, ravines, and more cacti than the set of a Hollywood western.

The land area is approximately 8,000 sq. km wide with hilly terrains and flat plains.

The Cinque Terre, or «Five Lands», are 5 picturesque villages built on the rugged and hilly landscape of the Liguria coastline and one of Italy «s most popular sites, attracting many visitors every year.

On land, the hilly tropical forests are crisscrossed by hiking trails, home to the island's protected deer, macaques and wild boar

Gaya Island Resort is located on Pulau Gaya, the largest of a cluster of five islands that form the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, a natural conservation area off the coast of Borneo, close to Kota Kinabalu.Gaya Island Resort has a unique setting: the land is fringed with a golden sandy beach, rocky coastal outcrops, and surrounded by coral reefs.The hilly island landscape is covered with lush tropical rainforest and an abundance of flora and fauna.And to complete this perfect setting, visible in the distance, is the stunning outline of Mount Kinabalu.The guest villa exterior respects Sabahan architecture, uses local materials and blends harmoniously with the natural environment.

2006 — Effect of land use conversion on soil organic carbon sequestration in the loess hilly area, loess plateau of China https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11284-006-0065-1

The land use impact of wind power facilities varies substantially depending on the site: wind turbines placed in flat areas typically use more land than those located in hilly areas.

If the land is rolling or hilly, the cold air formed on the higher land surfaces tends to drain into the hollows, producing a larger and thicker inversion above low ground and little or none above higher elevations.

The amount of erosion increases if land in hilly or low - lying areas is tilled.

A few players control the existing land, and development costs are often higher because of the hilly, rocky terrain.

While she lived in a nearly below ground apartment, she created the most beautiful hilly corner flower garden you ever saw as you rounded the parking lot corner and peered down into her small plot of land.