Sentences with phrase «in scrubland»

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The only thing I did not get to see was the famed «Sandbox» (a special workout that Shaw devised which an athlete performs in a 50 - yard by 10 - yard area hacked out of native scrubland and filled ankle - deep with thick, cloying sand), but this camp was all about strength, flexibility, and speed.

Despite the peacock's over-the-top tail and infamous strutting display, the birds need help finding each other in India's dense forests and scrubland.

The bumpy country road wound deeper into the scrubland until at last an undulating shape appeared in the distance.

The government - backed effort, known as the Grain - for - Green Program, has transformed 28 million hectares (69.2 million acres) of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest in an effort to prevent erosion and alleviate rural poverty.

But in a way that calls to mind the recent Jon McGregor novel Reservoir 13, it is pricklingly attuned to the bleak commonalities of all high - profile British crime cases: the tearful press conferences in village halls, the straggly lines of volunteers scouring scrubland for clues, the bouquets of dead flowers sellotaped to telegraph poles and fence posts, and most of all the public hunger for answers.

Even though the world of this film consists of outstretched carparks, giant dumpsters, novelty fast food concessions and scads of overgrown scrubland, Baker constantly assures that there is always a dash of fairy dust in the air if you know where to look for it.

Pearce, a Jersey native, locates all this in two contrasting settings: affluent suburbs that abut scrubland and jagged cliffs.

In drainage ditches and seeps, look for a delicate yellow flower, the seep monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus); a little later, look for its cousin on the drier hills of the scrubland, the sticky monkey flower (Mimulus aurantiacus).

Within this region, it inhabits scrubland habitats below 1,800 m (5,900 ft) dominated by plants such as cholla, Jatropha, and organ - pipe cactus, and in agricultural land.

These range from all singing, all dancing sites complete with swimming pools and other frills to patches of scrubland with little in the way of facilities.

Set in the Machililia National Park, amongst a few other beaches and scrubland, it is an excellent cheap and easy day - trip from the ugly town of Puerto Lopez.

And finally, Puerto Plata maintains an urbanized feel, and an economy based on something in addition to tourism, whereas newer communities (Punta Cana and Samaná) are basically modern communities carved from what was wilderness or scrubland, with none of the feelings of urban life that are so deeply engrained within the Dominican consciousness.

Spectacularly tracking each fatal bullet fired in flight, the camera whips across the battlefield and into an internal view of the projectile's unfortunate target to show bones being broken, organs obliterated, faces imploded, and brain matter strewn far and wide over the African scrubland.

Landsberg is the founder of an art project in Utah's west desert called Zaqistan, which consists of two rather inaccessible acres of scrubland that has been given the meta - contextual -LSB-...]

According to the IPCC's Table 4.1 (cited three times in the excerpt above), the Malcolm paper, which discusses vegetation only, estimates that different kinds of ecosystems — such as tundra, scrubland, and deciduous forest — could lose between 2 and 47 % of their current area.

The Carnegie study found that of the 161 planned or operating utility - scale solar power developments in California, more than half have been or will be built on natural shrub and scrublands totaling about 145 square miles of land, roughly the land area of the city of Bakersfield, Calif..