Sentences with phrase «of acres of»

A new state policy that recently went into effect has removed nearly all protection to over 400,000 acres of national forest, and has opened millions of acres of roadless forests to construction, logging and

By year - end 2.47 millions of acres of forests will go

A new state policy that recently went into effect has removed nearly all protection to over 400,000 acres of national forest, and has opened millions of acres of roadless forests to construction, logging and mining across Idaho.

Located 16 miles east of Beaufort, Hunting Island State Park is South Carolina's most popular park, which delivers five miles of pristine beaches, thousands of acres of marsh and maritime forest, a saltwater lagoon, an ocean inlet, the longest fishing pier on the Eastern seaboard, and a lovely lighthouse which is accessible to the public.

We can't have millions of acres deforested, on a monthly / annual basis, and have only thousands of acres of reforestation, reforestation has to occur at a rate of 10s of millions of acres.

Try saying «post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy» ten times fast.Washington Examiner (4/29/13) reports: «No wonder Institute for Energy Research President Thomas J. Pyle contends that «Obama has kept keep billions of acres of federal lands and waters behind the most onerous regulatory blockade in American history.

That is especially important if we continue to divert millions of acres of farmland from food crops, and convert millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat to cropland, for biofuel production to replace fossil fuels that we again have in abundance.

Even if remote areas are spared, millions of acres of «near wilderness» on the outskirts of cities must remain intact to avoid a world that feels completely urbanized.

We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.»

By year's end, thousands of acres of forest had succumbed with no sign of relief.

Burn scars from particularly intensely - burning fires in recent years cover hundreds of thousands of acres of the California landscape, and these regions will be profoundly vulnerable to debris flows and landslides as a result of the decreased infiltration capacity of scorched soils.

Their surrogates held yet another dog and pony show for the press to tout the «necessity» of erecting more wind turbines, and clearing thousands of acres of Maine forest to build the costly transmission lines to get this electricity down to southern New England.

Among many problems with such a simplistic approach, this does not account for millions of acres of land sitting idle right now, in several parts of the world.

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.

(06/29/2009) Every year, tens of millions of acres of tropical forests are destroyed.

«GE's cleanup of the upper Hudson has left hundreds of acres of sediments contaminated with PCBs at levels that will continue the river's status as America's largest Superfund site — a designation that is based on both environmental and health threats and that impedes economic revitalization of Hudson River waterfronts and communities,» added Mr. Sullivan.

Since 1990, we have been recognizing grassroots environmental heroes who have dedicated their lives to forest conservation, and ensured that millions of acres of the world's forests have been spared from destruction.

Ihave been given to understand thatsolar arrays, because of dust contamination (aggravated, of course, in desert type installations) have to be washed periodically.Perhaps Gunnar could give us some estimate of the amount of water needed to wash hundreds of thousands of acres of desert solar panels.and, as well, where that water would come from, how it would be transported and what the environmental effect would be.

Hundreds of acres of active agricultural land and forests will be flooded, as well as 30 architecturally and / or archeologically significant sites.

Or the millions of acres of farmland and fruit trees or any number of ways that monetary damages today are exponentially larger than in the 19th century from exactly the same natural variability weather events that have been going on for thousands of years.

The Environmental Working Group's report, «Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol production:

Since biodiesel is made from soybean, palm, canola, flax, sunflower, and other plant oils, those crops must be grown on millions of acres of land, using enormous amounts of water, fertilizer, pesticides, and energy.

Surely it would have been jarring simply to describe that plan's instrumental view of nature, with its firm avowal of «American energy dominance» and suggestion that millions of acres of public lands and waters may soon be auctioned off for oil and gas development.

The report states that western pine beetle activity has increased on the Sawmill - Liebre Ridge of the Angeles National Forest — where the Sand Fire is located — and that tree mortality «has been persistent in this area for the past 3 years, impacting hundreds of acres of forested land.»

After environmental activists successfully stopped Ugandan government from allocating thousands of acres of Mabira forest to a private developer who had an intention of establishing sugar plantations, large areas of tropical forest in Kangala islands are being converted into BIDCO palm plantations, which will be used to produce biodiesel.

On a global scale, the biofuels frenzy is diverting millions of acres of farmland from food crops, converting millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other biofuels.

Curtailment of state and federal water project deliveries for agricultural irrigation have already resulted multi-billion dollar losses as thousands of acres of farmland are fallowed.

I can only imagine the transition from living on 100s of acres of farmland and then moving to a city, and then the inevitable house in the suburbs on a 50» X 100 ′ lot.

Increasing the quantity and quality of habitat for pollinators is a major part of this effort — with actions ranging from the construction of pollinator gardens at Federal buildings to the restoration of millions of acres of Federally managed lands and similar actions on private lands.

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.

We've preserved thousands of acres of land, halted harmful industrial mega-projects, successfully reshaped inappropriate residential development and created parks that connect people with the river in dozens of communities.

CFACT Truth Squad member Paul Driessen, in a piece entitled, «Triple Threat: UN, EPA and Congress,» warns that even without Kyoto - imposed CO2 reductions, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's proposed regulations of CO2 and other emissions, and the Interior Department's use of the Endangered Species Act to lock up millions of acres of forest and oil and natural gas reserves, can accomplish much the same thing as the climate alarmists attempted at Copenhagen, Cancun, Doha, and other climate conferences.

And don't forget the environmental disaster caused by millions of acres of solar farms destroying bird and wildlife habits, to say nothing of the millions of birds and bats slaughtered by windmills.

ConocoPhillips confidently secures mineral rights to tens of thousands of acres of the NPR - A that are congruent with expansion projects they already have in development.

America's environmentalists, legislators, judges and bureaucrats have already made hundreds of millions of acres of resource - rich land off limits — and rendered centuries of oil, gas, coal, uranium, geothermal and other energy unavailable.

The millions of acres of forested land that exist in Washington and Oregon provide not just jobs and valuable resources to the world economy, they are working forests that provide home to an abundance of fish and wildlife.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

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.

Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong's Li Ka - shing, Philippines» Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all over the world.

In the U.S., millions of acres of forest have been damaged by beetles, according to a report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Around the world, millions of acres of forest are falling to the ax and torch every year.

A movement based on the above principles could protect millions of acres of wilderness more stringently than could any congressional act, could insure the propagation of the Grizzly and other threatened life forms better than could an army of game wardens, and could lead to the retreat of industrial civilization from large areas of forest, mountain, desert, prairie, seashore, swamp, tundra, and woodland that are better suited to the maintenance of native diversity than to the production of raw materials for over consumptive technological human society.

Despite the enormous potential for hundreds of millions of acres of private forestlands in the U.S. to participate in the carbon market, to date only five forest carbon projects have been registered and verified.

A variety of beetle that has killed off millions of acres of trees in the Rocky Mountains is now being tapped as a possible new elixir for converting biomass into...

«President Obama moved to solidify his environmental legacy Tuesday by withdrawing hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean from new offshore oil...

We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.»

Millions of acres of trees and vegetation are deforested in the process.

Regulations for storage of millions of tons of coal ash around the country — leftover toxic sludge of the sort that spilled over hundreds of acres of eastern Tennessee in 2008 — remain in limbo.

In order to make this bad deal work, the coal companies were allowed to re-route the highway's proposed route, moving it away from local business districts and threatening to take thousands of acres of privately - owned land through eminent domain.

Climate justice activist Tim DeChristopher derails George W. Bush's 2008 plan to gift thousands of acres of Utah wilderness to energy and mining industries.