The sheer ruggedness, proximity to water and lower elevation provides
important habitat for wildlife, including black bears, bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, American pine martins, mountain lions, eagles, falcons, imperiled bats, and many other species of wildlife.
The restored wetland will provide
important habitat for wildlife and native plants.
Results showed that the distribution of ungulate hunters on private lands is highly correlated with predator compensation claims, indicating depredation occurs on private lands that contain
important habitat for wildlife.
Common reed is a non-native invasive grass that displaces native plant species that provide
important habitat for wildlife.
Not exact matches
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.
Careful site selection
for renewable facilities of all types is
important to minimize the loss and fragmentation of
wildlife habitat and forests that sequester carbon.
Wind developers that cooperate with the guidelines will avoid dividing
important habitats like forests and grasslands, thus maintaining their suitability
for wildlife.
Coastal wetlands in Louisiana are economically and esthetically
important by providing storm protection, flood control, and essential
habitats for a myriad of
wildlife.
What may appear unusual
for a
wildlife biologist is only natural
for Charu: «The people who share the
habitat of snow leopards and other endangered species can be a threat to these animals, but they are also our most
important partners in protecting them», he explains.
These native plant communities will help prevent further erosion and create
important habitat for native
wildlife.
This pristine location is protected from the open ocean by Fraser Island and Inskip Point and is an
important mangrove
habitat for many local
wildlife.
With more than 700 square miles of wetland and saw grass prairies, Everglades National Park is a magnificent and
important habitat for Florida
wildlife, including endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile and Florida panther.
The Neck is an
important habitat for native
wildlife, so keep your eyes peeled
for short - tailed shearwaters and little penguins returning to their burrows at dusk.
Updated (see postscript) Forestry, done in the right place the right way and
for the right reasons, can be an
important source of materials, jobs and
wildlife habitat.
Cruz creditably withstood the perennial temptation — among Republicans and Democrats alike — to bow down to Big Corn and the federal mandate
for ethanol that has been such a boon to Iowa corn farmers and bane if you care about food prices, greenhouse gas emissions, herbicide use or the loss of wild vegetation in the Midwest that is an
important food source
for monarchs and
habitat for other
wildlife.
Ana Paula Tavares, executive director of Audubon New York and Connecticut, said, «New York's shorelines provide a place
for people to live, work and relax, while also serving as some of the most
important bird and
wildlife habitat in the Western Hemisphere.
The wooded land not only is
important as a critical
habitat for birds and other
wildlife but sequesters carbon that contributes to global climate change.
That is especially
important if we continue to divert millions of acres of farmland from food crops, and convert millions of acres of rainforest and other
wildlife habitat to cropland,
for biofuel production to replace fossil fuels that we again have in abundance.
The protected land provides clean water
for the Arkansas River's Gold Medal trout fishery,
important wildlife habitat, biological diversity, outdoor recreation opportunities, scenic beauty, cattle grazing and other uses.
Bill Dotzler, a state senator who helped the TPC gain the necessary initial funding, is hopeful about their potential: «You almost get a trifecta with this — you clean the streams, you provide
habitat for pheasants and other
wildlife and you produce an alternative fuel... It's not going to be the whole answer, but I think burning the native plants could be an
important part of the whole puzzle.»
Preferred
habitat: moist or seasonally moist open places + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant in winter + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 1/2 to 2 pounds of pure live seed per 1,000 square feet, or 3 feet apart
for garden accents + + + +
Wildlife value: dense growth makes it good
wildlife habitat, and large seeds attract various birds;
important source of food
for ground feeding songbirds and game, also a butterfly larval food plant.
These video camera traps show that Bukit Batabuh area is an
important habitat for the Sumatran tiger in Riau, functioning as a
wildlife corridor, hence it becomes a priority area
for tiger conservation.
Another
important habitat for birds, the lake was declared a «protected area» in 1989 but has diminished in size and become quite polluted, affecting not only
wildlife but local fishing and tourism industries.
Today — due to the
important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters
for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures,
wildlife and
wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.
If on the other hand the moderately impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable
habitat for several
important native species of
wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land
for agriculture.
These permanently protected lands provide
important wildlife habitat for migratory birds including the Prothonotary and Swainson's Warblers, Yellow - billed Cuckoo and White - eyed Vireo.