Sentences with phrase «marshes for»

Conducting inspections of assigned facilities, grounds, ditches, drainage, water areas and marshes for infestation on pests

Resource availability will be the key: during the summer, islands on inland marshes for breeding; and in winter, fish - filled waters along the coast and perhaps increasingly inland.

Once he got past the initial shock of seeing the drained marshes for the first time, Alwash took on the seemingly impossible challenge of bringing environmental protection to the forefront of a nation focused on restoring peace and rebuilding infrastructure.

Golf courses, planned residential and commercial developments, and airports attract the geese with a combination of wide open spaces for foraging, ponds or marshes for swimming, and protected edge areas for nesting.

I don't care if you are going to take your retriever puppy into the field or marsh for hunting or if your puppy...

One afternoon, Young trawled the boat over to the marsh for a closer look.

Not exact matches

The cover the basics: white, brown, basmati, but they also look into some other fun rices like wild rice - not actually a rice but a marsh grass, and Bomba, the rice for paella.

I have a soft spot for little rural towns, especially ones that have adorable little roadside produce stands and scenic marsh views.

Between 4 and 12 April 2017, 2,648 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered in conjunction with 3,833 ML of NSW environmental water to the mid-Macquarie River and Macquarie Marshes to provide opportunities for the post-spawning dispersal of native fish, including golden, silver and spangled perch.

Our thoughts are with the Marshes and the Baxters for the ordeal they have endured.

Environmental water was delivered in winter 2017 to provide a pre-wetting flow pulse to the Macquarie Marshes to prime the system for the delivery of environmental water in late winter and spring.

The Marshes are an important breeding site for colonial waterbirds.

The Macquarie Marshes is one of four priority research sites for the Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project (MDB EWKR).

A man who disses the whole concept or necessity for a tight defence, as Wenger has done for a full decade (or even more, in truth) should be drummed out of top level football and sent to manage on HACKNEY MARSHES, DIVISION 8, where he will find his Utopia, teams playing like Arsenal defence.

The WD looked like it was coming on the seventh hole, where he grabbed for his back after his drive, hobbled out of the marsh after a recovery shot, and grimaced in pain after an approach shot.

The team played there for only six months from the start of the 1887 - 88 season before flooding drove them to what was then Manor Field on the Marshes.

RED CARD: MARSH GETS HIS MARCHING ORDERS - 90 +5 mins We weren't able to meaningfully trouble Porto in the closing stages and deep into stoppage time, Marsh was penalised for a challenge on keeper Costa as he competed for Bennetts» free - kick in the box and was sent off after being shown a second yellow card.

April 29: Walk through lush gardens, an enchanted forest, and a serene marsh looking for more than 150 Fairy and Gnome Homes (Salisbury)

This curriculum for middle and high school students includes classroom activities, identification sheets and a dichotomous key for identifying salt marsh plants, and data sheets for salt marsh field trips utilizing lessons developed by Kristen Grant and the salt marsh science protocols developed by Dr. Robert Buchsbaum and Dr. David Burdick.

Grapefruit fields, pine trees, parrots, and marshes characterize this spot, which also houses schools for young Cuban and foreign students.

This naive view gave way to anger and since your book, I realize that medical doctors are just like the rest of us being fed bullshit for truth — building their lives on marshes of fecal rhetoric and subsisting for the material accouterments the pharma / insurance dollar bring.

This conference is for students participating in Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project and is a place for students to showcase their analysis of salt marsh data.

View of marsh and Cape Cod Canal at Osprey Overlook, where a pair of ospreys may be seen providing for their brood during spring and summer.

From forest to meadow, salt marsh to seashore, farmland to heathland, many of Mass Audubon's wildlife sanctuaries offer a unique, natural setting for your family gathering, party, or business event.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

In addition to providing habitat for various salt marsh species, the land also provides opportunities for salt marsh migration in an age of climate change.

«This grant has made it possible for us to restore important coastal marsh habitat, which faces a number of major threats, including invasive species and climate change.»

Bandshell at Forest Park in Woodhaven • $ 300,000 to improve lighting along the shorefront facing Queens in Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island • $ 1.5 million to renovate the baseball fields at Glen Oaks Playground in Glen Oaks • $ 1 million to renovate Hallets Cove Playground in Astoria • $ 975,000 to improve the asphalt field at Hoffman Park in Elmhurst • $ 1.3 million to construct a meditation garden and upgrade Rachel Carson Playground in Kissena Corridor Park in Flushing • $ 322,000 to construct a skate park at Laurelton Playground in Laurelton • $ 850,000 to upgrade Lannett Playground in Far Rockaway • $ 600,000 to renovate Maple Playground in Flushing • $ 1.5 million to install new play equipment and to upgrade the sprinklers and surface at Mauro Playground in Kew Gardens Hills • $ 350,000 for landscape improvements along the Merrick Boulevard Mall in Springfield Gardens • $ 700,000 to enhance the lawn area, install new walkways, decorate pavers, install new benches and plantings, create a new entry and repair the retaining wall at Newtown Playground in Elmhurst • $ 2 million to upgrade to existing benches and equipment in Norelli Hargreaves Park in Jamaica • $ 300,000 for a mall enhancement and tree plantings along the Northern Boulevard Mall between 62nd Street and 102nd Street in Woodside / Jackson Heights • $ 400,000 to renovate Kingsland Homestead in Flushing • $ 3 million for the preservation of the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 480,000 to replace the aviary mesh and marsh bridge at the Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 2 million to renovate the asphalt field at the World's Fair Playground in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 800,000 to formalize the picnic grove, add gravel pads and grills, install new fences and benches and upgrade the basketball courts in Rainey Park in Astoria • $ 1.5 million for turf and track upgrades at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica • $ 1.4 million to renovate Sandpiper Playground in Rockaway Beach • $ 600,000 to renovate the museum building at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City • $ 500,000 construct a dog run at Triborough Bridge Playground B in Astoria • $ 375,000 for pavers and accent lighting at Tribute Park in the Rockaways • $ 250,000 for site acquisition to add to Udalls Cove in Little Neck • $ 175,000 to improve sidewalk and perimeter of Veterans Grove in Elmhurst • $ 1.6 million to resurface the baseball field and upgrade the play equipment at Vleigh Playground in Flushing • $ 300,000 to support the borough's Tree Stump Removal Program.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

Shuttered mom - and - pop shops along Front Street, Avenue C and elsewhere are struggling to find a way out of the marsh, while several hundred employees who are out of work are scrambling for income to keep food on the table.

It has long been blamed for causing high nitrogen levels and degraded marshes in the Western Bays.

Columbia plans to build a new $ 100 million 47,700 - square - foot field house at 218th Street and Broadway and has promised a host of community amenities in exchange, including a $ 3 million investment in the sports fields, which would be more readily accessible for community use and a new boathouse marsh that would be «gifted» to the city for public use.

«There are lots of human benefits that coastal marshes provide for us so we want to understand how our activities are damaging marshes and what we can do to help them.»

The lands that were lost were also breeding grounds for marine mammals, brown pelicans, turtles, and fish, as well as migratory species such as redhead ducks.Overall, about 20 % of the local marshes were permanently overrun by water as a result of the storm.

South of Orlando, Lake Tohopekaliga, known locally as Lake Toho, is famous for bass fishing but is also a good place to see bald eagles and the endangered snail kite, a small hawk that feeds on snails in tropical marshes (800-247-1309).

The marshes aren't just protection for the plant's $ 3 billion in upgrades — they're a part of the massive federal Everglades restoration project.

Louisiana's ecologically important but fast - eroding marshes, which serve as nurseries for commercially important shrimp and fish, are the main worry.

Just the sight of Carcinus maenas, the invasive green crab, sends marsh grass - eating Sesarma reticulatum crabs running for their lives.

In March 1986 Atwater drove west from Seattle toward Neah Bay and Cape Flattery, on the northwestern tip of Washington State, and started searching the beaches, tide marshes, and river estuaries for clues about whether the outer coast had risen or dropped.

The changes destroyed nearly all of the shallow water marshes critical for fish and wildlife, Walker says.

Working with the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, the tribe has removed thousands of feet of dikes that once diverted river flows, reclaiming areas converted for agriculture and restoring more than 900 acres of salt marsh.

Because they're located in the transition between land and ocean — the terrestrial - aquatic interface — the challenge for salt marshes is that their biogeochemistry is also influenced by tides, which bring matter and energy in as they rise.

In addition to the vertical fluxes, Vargas explained that is also important to account for lateral fluxes in salt marshes, as well.

«Sink» or swim for salt marshes: Understanding the processes that control the flow of carbon in marshes.»

Bertness thinks that the salt marshes became more appealing for green crabs once the marsh crabs had dug so many burrows.

Natural habitats such as coral reefs, marshes and dunes can act as buffers for waves, storms and floods.

Bleaker than the landscape is the infrastructure for some 80,000 people clinging to an agrarian lifestyle, often along drainage canals within regions that used to be covered by marshes.

«It won't be instant mortality for the marsh plants,» she says.

Estimates for tidal marshes and seagrass meadows vary, because these ecosystems are not as well mapped globally, but the total for each could exceed 80 million metric tons per year.

The biodiversity of the tundras is low: 1,700 species of flora and only 48 land mammals can be found, although thousands of insects and birds migrate there each year for the marshes.