Sentences with phrase «millions of acres»

This is probably sour grapes, but the entry of huge players helped to broaden the horizon and subsequently added to the conversion of millions of acres of land into sustainable organic production.

Or could it have something to do with the fact that the tallest trees in the world spread out here across millions of acres?

Such a scenario would create incentives to reduce intentional burning that currently affects millions of acres worldwide each year.

Some steps have already been taken in recent years, with millions of acres of public and private forest land being designated as conservation reserves, for instance.

The region has been so dry that huge, explosive fires consumed millions of acres of vegetation and thousands of homes and other buildings this summer.

We plant millions of acres of genetically modified corn and sugar beets, and much of that crop doesn't nourish anyone.

In the form of killed bacteria, it was sprayed on millions of acres.

Millions of acres of forests are destroyed each year through human deforestation and logging.

Lodgepole pine trees on millions of acres in Colorado and Wyoming are dying and will oxidize on the forest floor unless otherwise used, victims of a pine beetle infestation exacerbated by warming global temperatures.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has opened millions of acres of public lands for development while pursuing policies of protection in his home state.

Our successes range from protecting millions of acres of wilderness to helping pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

Warm, dry conditions made Alaska's boreal forest a tinderbox last year as millions of acres burned in catastrophic wildfires.

The West was engulfed in flames this year, as millions of acres burned across California, Montana, Oregon, and elsewhere, adding up to the most expensive fire season on record.

Forestland certified to SFI Standards with Tribal and Aboriginal partners covers millions of acres in several different jurisdictions.

Surrounded by millions of acres of forest and mountains, guest teachers share diverse offerings that encompass a spectrum of specialties, including yoga therapy, meditation, mindfulness, healing arts, and much more.

As part of the plan, the BLM, which controls millions of acres of public lands with the Forest Service, will regulate miners, energy developers and ranchers who hold federal leases to work in sage brush wilderness in 10 states.

«The sustainability question is largely about the impact of using millions of acres of U.S. land to grow biofuel crops,» Robertson said.

«Spraying fungicides over millions and millions of acres does not always provide effective control and certainly is not environmentally appealing,» he says.

Roughly two - thirds of Utah is federally held; the state gave up millions of acres more than a century ago in order to join the Union (though it expected eventually to get them back).

There are also millions of acres of unforgettable parkland where all you need is a tent, a sleeping bag, marshmallows and a few good campfire stories.

He left his sons millions of acres.»

They also threaten Homo sapiens, that poor creature who lately has begun driving six miles out of his way to buy phosphate - free laundry soap, all the while turning his back on poisoning programs that are directly and specifically contaminating millions of acres of his country.

A savings of 10 to 15 percent per crop per season spread over millions of acres — «that's a significant amount of water,» Clark says.

In the United States, he said, land trusts and nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy have purchased millions of acres of land or bought easements that amount to legal barriers that keep the land out of the hands of developers.

Kenyan scientists are scrambling to fight the growth of the so - called Devil Tree, an introduced species called Prosopis juliflora which has grown out of control and threatens millions of acres of land in northwest Kenya.

We need to invent some new technology, [which] may not be as efficient, but you need to be able to make millions of acres of stuff if you want to get a lot of energy.

In anordinary season, grasshoppers eat about 20 percent of the fodder onrangeland; in areas of infestation, the percentage can increase to 100, affecting millions of acres at $ 5 to $ 10 per acre.

Glen Canyon could slowly come back to life and water managers would get millions of acre - feet that is currently evaporating from Powell's surface and seeping into the limestone below it.

Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin — Madison researchers show in a study today (April 2, 2015) that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four - year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands.

At the turn of the century, as many as 5 billion prairie dogs occupied millions of acres of grass prairies across the West.

A new survey reveals that biofuel crops have expanded onto millions of acres of new land, with serious consequences for the environment.

These countries» economies are extremely dependent on the export, so they've cleared millions of acres of forests to make way for more lucrative palm oil plantations.

According to legal observers, the outcome of the case, Lawrence County v. Lead - Deadwood School District No. 40 - 1 (Case No. 83 - 240), could affect school finances in many Western states, where millions of acres of land are owned by the federal government and thus are not subject to property taxes, a major source of school revenue.

In his hyperrealist style, he examines the myth surrounding kudzu, a non-native species that lives large in the Southern imagination as a monstrous weed that enshrouds millions of acres in land under its dark tangled mass.

In the American West, bark beetles benefitting from milder winters have devastated millions of acres of trees weakened by lack of water.

This 170 percent increase in the amount of land slated for agribusiness, much of it under forest cover, since Myanmar's new government took office, and the additional millions of acres identified as available for agricultural conversion, contradicts national statements purporting to protect Myanmar's remaining forests and land rights.

It impacts millions of acres of scenic, wildlife and agricultural land — and uses vast amounts of raw materials, whose extraction and processing further impairs global land, air and water quality.

Intended to protect small areas of historic or scenic value, it has been abused too often to place millions of acres off limits to energy development and other economic uses, by presidential edict.

Phoenix, Arizona, for example, could hit 120 °F this weekend, and with dry heat comes wildfires, burning right now across the southwest and stoking climate change further by destroying millions of acres of forests.