Sentences with phrase «irrigated valleys»
The surrounding scenery is very varied, ranging from semi-desert, scrub - covered hills, cut through by fertile irrigated valleys, to high mountain ranges whose lower slopes are clad in vast pine forests.
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On either side lie lush green polygons — the irrigated fields of the Mexicali valley just south of the US border, where tomatoes, cucumbers and onions grow in what should be a desert.
In a recent study published by Point Blue Conservation Science (Point Blue) and Audubon California in the journal Western Birds, scientists document the importance of irrigated agricultural crops in California's Central Valley to a conspicuous shorebird.
«Curlews can't survive in the Central Valley without irrigated agriculture, given the loss of most of their historic shallow - water habitats in summer and fall,» says Dave Shuford, Point Blue ecologist and lead author of the publication.
Observers recorded over 20,000 curlews: about 93 % were in the central and southern portions of the Central Valley, concentrating in areas extensively flood irrigated for alfalfa and irrigated pasture.
«You must have rain in the Ethiopian highlands to irrigate the Nile valley, so if monsoon rains are disrupted, the usual floods would have been lost,» says Francis Ludlow at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, the team's climate historian.
«You must have rain in the Ethiopian highlands to irrigate the Nile valley, so if monsoon rains are disrupted, the usual floods would have been lost,» says Ludlow.
Though he appears in just three scenes in Roman Polanski's 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, John Huston creates one of movie history's most formidable villains: Noah Cross, the wealthy and ruthless land baron who masterminds an elaborate plot to buy up cheap desert property in the San Fernando Valley, irrigate it after bribing the water department, and sell the land for millions.
When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by «borrowing» some water from a large and potentially destructive site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash.
This village located at the valley, surround of many hill and most of the area is a rice fields that irrigate by Subak, the Balinese traditional water system for rice field.
In the Alpujarres, a valley on the other side of the Sierra Nevada, the irrigated terraces that were constructed by the Moors, are still functioning.
These tall terraces which run up the narrow valley are irrigated by an aqueduct from Pachatusan, the mountain above the site.
Then there are the fertile valleys of the villages of San Pablo de Buceite and San Mart n del Tesorillo, where orange groves and other agricultural activities, irrigated by the River Guadiaro, are important local industries in the area.
California's Central Valley could no longer be irrigated.
You make a great comparison between Kumik and other areas in the world like California's Central Valley that rely heavily on snow melt to irrigate agriculture.
For example, the study found some of the largest effects in India's arid Indus River Basin, where irrigation may be cooling the climate up to 3 degrees C, (5.4 degrees F) and up to 1 - 2 degrees C in other heavily irrigated regions such as California's Central Valley and parts of China.
Our working hypothesis is that the rapid valley warming is caused by the massive growth in irrigated agriculture.