Sentences with phrase «land along the river»

For too long, too much of the land along the river has been devoted to industrial sites.

There were wide areas dotted with mesquite and huisache, open, grassy prairies, knolls covered with groves of gnarled live oak trees, shallow depressions which are flooded in times of rain and dense thickets covering the bottom land along the river.

Surrounded by leaders of several environmental organizations and standing near a boat landing along the river, Seggos said unacceptably high levels of PCB - contaminated sediment remain in large portions of the Upper Hudson River.

Today we have a plan for protecting 65,000 acres of critically important land along the river that could be lost to unchecked, unplanned development if we don't act now.»

«Having an internationally recognized group such as The Pew Charitable Trusts give its vote of confidence to our work and to our donor's ambitious goal of preserving critical parcels of land along the river is extremely gratifying.»

As the elevation increases, the pinon juniper trees that dominate the arid lands along the river give way to Douglas fir, Ponderosa pine, and large stands of aspen.

Not exact matches

Trump would also face myriad environmental regulations, objections from private land owners and a legally binding 1970 treaty with Mexico that governs structures along the Rio Grande and Colorado River at the Mexican border.

«This refinery wouldn't change the pipeline of oil that would traverse British Columbia's rugged land, and healthy rivers and lakes,» said New Democrat energy critic John Horgan, who along with Skeena MLA Robin Austin, provided the New Democrat's initial response to the proposal.

From the time of the land of Ur, Genesis 15:7, which was the land that YHWH called Abraham out of to give him, and his «seeds» the inheritance of the land from the river of Egypt, unto the great river of the Euphrates, along with the covenant in Genesis 15:18.

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

The taro plant usually grows along river banks and marshy lands in warm weather.

Currently, the village spends about $ 80,000 annually to maintain the 15 - acre Shorewood Park, composed of five playgrounds for small children and a 5 - acre parcel of undeveloped land along the Du Page River on the eastern edge of the village.

The money will be used to acquire and protect land for nature areas, open space and for park and recreation purposes, including along the Fox River; improve and develop trails and fishing access; improve and renovate neighborhood and community parks and playgrounds, sports fields and facilities, and Blackberry Farm.

Even after the cleanup is completed, PCBs will remain present throughout extensive lands along and near the river, which feature many different ownerships both in Massachusetts and downstream in Connecticut.

The Kendall County Forest Preserve and the Oswegoland park system are getting a $ 161,000 grant to acquire eight parcels of land along the Fox River.

Jamaica State Park 700 + acres of public land along the West River, with a nature center, campground and hiking trails.

Following the Revolutionary War, New England farmers who had traveled and fought along the Mohawk River, came back to clear and settle more promising lands.

Melissa Schlag, the former executive director of Citizens for Protection of Public Lands (CPPL) in Connecticut, is challenging Democrat Eileen Daily for Connecticut State Senate District 33, along the Connecticut River.

By Darryl Enriquez A developer's interest in selling land for a walkway connecting lakes Mendota and Monona along the east bank of the Yahara River in Madison leaves Karolyn Bebee as the lone holdout.

An inventor and sportsman as well, he constructed his own private airport on a portion of the land now underwater beneath Lake Tappan, and constructed Rockland County's first private golf course on another section, along Blue Hill Road and the Hackensack River.

Diaz will specifically focus on a request for expressions of interest that the state put out in December for a 12.8 acre site at Harlem River Yards, a large stretch of land by the Willis Avenue Bridge along the water.

That has wind developers eyeing the farm land along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario.

The public will have the opportunity to hear what is happening near the river, including 2013 plans for an elevator connection between the waterfront and the Walkway Over the Hudson, a new Upper Landing Park along the Fall Kill Creek, a proposed Gateway zoning district around the Parker Avenue entrance to the Walkway, and ongoing plans to improve Kaal Rock Point and Park.

In the largest down payment on his Buffalo billion - dollar commitment, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo this morning will announce the creation of a clean - energy research campus on 90 acres of land along the Buffalo River that will include two initial tenants moving from California to create 850 jobs.

Along the river we find the Corning Preserve and Jennings Landing.

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act — Vote Passed (250 - 171, 10 Not Voting) The bill would require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to pay for a private survey to identify the south boundary line along the Red River separating Texas and Oklahoma with regards to land title and ownership, with the states of Texas and Oklahoma to determine which lands are federal lands and which are privLand Management (BLM) to pay for a private survey to identify the south boundary line along the Red River separating Texas and Oklahoma with regards to land title and ownership, with the states of Texas and Oklahoma to determine which lands are federal lands and which are privland title and ownership, with the states of Texas and Oklahoma to determine which lands are federal lands and which are private.

Katko has expressed concern that Mohawk Indian nation land along the St. Lawrence River is a prime smuggling route from Canada into the United States.

An $ 8 million senior center is being constructed on land along the Chicopee River that was originally developed during the early 1800s to manufacture textiles.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

THEY might be ungainly on land, but in water it's a different story — hippos glide gracefully along the river bed using their feet as punts.

The destructive floods along the Mississippi river last year helped create new land in the delta.

A federal judge ruled last week that a federal agency's actions to improve habitats for endangered species along the Missouri River exacerbated floods, causing damage to local farmers whose land was temporarily inundated.

Such projects are likely to be controversial, however: although the city would be protected, the diverted river would destroy land and property along its path and swamp the fisheries at its end.

By examining an old crevasse along Bayou Lafourche, a precursor of the Mississippi River, the researchers found that mud can build enough land to keep up with sea level rise if the diversion flows into existing vegetated areas protected from marine forces.

Not only do the individual water samples contain information on aquatic organisms, but also land organisms found along the river.

The river itself acts as a hurdle to disease transmission, as the dense cypress roots all along its banks make it difficult to land a boat and explore the vegetation.

Reforestation and renaturalization along a strip of land at least 50 to 100 meters wide along both banks of the river.

The southeast corner of the state is represented only by two fingers of land — the areas along the Mississippi River and Bayou Lafourche that currently are protected by levees.

The Xinane River village lies along a major route used by cocaine smugglers, notes Bauer - Goulden, who suspects that «the narcotraffickers pushed them out» of their own lands.

A few of us with international driving licences learnt to drive the Land Rovers, up hills, down hills, across rivers, along rivers.

Overweight children would not be the first thing a visitor to Grafton, West Virginia, would think of when seeing the small farms that cling to steep hillsides and cultivate the bottom land along the Tygart River as one drives into town.

When the land along its banks was newly broken, paddleboats and barges of grain moved grandly from its source to Winnipeg, for the river flowed inscrutably north.

Along the coast, the land is dotted with dense evergreen forests while winding rivers crisscross the countryside.

«Families that live along the river will often enjoy boating or kayaking in the summer months and then build massive toboggan hills in the winter that land right on the shores of the river,» says Pidlaski.

This parasite is also killing off rare and endangered marine - mammals along all coastlines and inland river - otters from cats» T. gondii oocysts in run - off from the land, the oocysts surviving even in saltwater.

The southern boundary is also occupied by the Salt River Pima - Maricopa Indian Community, which extends along the eastern boundary, which also borders Fountain Hills, the McDowell Mountain Regional Park and more unincorporated Maricopa County land.

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