Sentences with phrase «of wooded land»

The property has 30 acres of wooded land ideal for a walk.

Through a unanimous vote by the Town Board, 25 acres of wooded land on Pomona Road in New Hempstead was reportedly transferred to the town's local development corporation for commercial or mixed use.

The workshop is on 20 acres of wooded land abutting a lake where Snyder lives with his wife, Helen, and three young children (Van Wyk and his wife, Katy, are planning on building their own home there soon, too).

It was strange driving down Highway 278, past dozens of Baptist churches and farm supply stores to find an austere Benedictine monastery sitting on 180 acres of wooded land.

Not exact matches

When I was 25, my husband and I bought 30 acres of land and built a cabin in the Maine woods.

About 43 percent of the city consists of lakes and ponds, including a 50 - acre wooded tract of land that serves as a plant and wildlife sanctuary.

If you can land a great first impression, you'll set the stage for a killer presentation — but don't think you're out of the woods yet.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

But «it is one thing to see the land of peace from a wooded ridge... and another to tread the road that leads to it.»

The pair found a 12 - acre parcel of land in Charles Town, W. Va., with an old farm cabin atop a hill surrounded by woods.

The cabin is nestled deep in the woods on a huge plot of family - owned land, miles down an unpaved dirt road.

Their land is a combination of pasture, cultivated fields, wooded areas and brush.

Smits left Zionsville, Ind., to join a caravan heading south on Route 65 and landed in the woods of Hohenwald as a spectator at an American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association competition.

The name Val Gardena, by an ancient translation, means «pasture near a wood,» and it covers a lot of pasture land.

From the bend of Whiteadder Water on the south, as the chart showed, the Clark farm stretched about two miles north to a parcel called the Wee Plough - lands, and at midsection extended one mile from the wood called Lazybeds Plantation to Big Howleas field.

For a couple of years, we went into the woods here on our land and found a natural one, though always a bit of a Charlie Brown, I loved those the best.

If you had asked me a year ago to envision a «home birthing couple» I probably would have described a pair of long - haired back - to - the - land hippies living in a cabin in the woods and shunning any and all medical advances.

Apparently the land of actual dead WOOD....

She argues that only a small number of Naperville residents are using this large, beautifully wooded chunk of park - district - owned land and that it should be used for something with a wider appeal.

The other new development is a long - sought deal, finalized this winter, to keep a visible, wooded parcel of land known as «The 38 Acres» as open space.

(Available in pastel colors, primary colors or natural wood colors for $ 149 at the Land of Nod)

Each grazing cow that produces milk used in artificial baby milk needs about 10,000 square meters of land.9 Wooded land is cleared for pasture, leading to deforestation as well as depletion and erosion of the soil.

Students inhabit fairy tale lands as well as chemistry labs, and a wide variety of places in between — the classroom may be the garden, woods, or auditorium, in addition to the more conventional locales.

Yesterday, the mayor's social media director quit after just eight weeks on job, denouncing political hacks on his Facebook page, a move that landed him on the wood of the New York Post.

That American author, George William Curtis once wrote: «A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but... a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.»

The parkland consisted of farm land and woods, following the settlement of the area.

More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.

That's a key question because through photosynthesis, land plants currently take up about a quarter of the CO2 humans add to the atmosphere each year, sequestering it as wood and as soil carbon.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

«That's probably the biggest problem — people could have gathered timber from the woods or lived downstream of the land grabbed,» Wolford said.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

The biggest savings are achieved at the beginning of the production chain due to the reduced use of fresh wood, which in turn reduces the required forest land area.

In order to account for the characteristic features of cascading use, wood researcher Michael Risse applied the holistic life cycle approach and analyzed the exergy of all materials used, the internal recycling processes, and the consumption of other primary resources, such as the forest land areas required.

A team of Smithsonian biologists led by Brandt Ryder worked closely with Ben Vernasco, a doctoral candidate in biology at Virginia Tech, on a study that aimed to identify characteristics that promote healthy wood thrush populations on U.S. Department of Defense land.

This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility.

You know there's this term «videophilia,» that's sort of kicking around, this idea of, you know, the more kids spend in front of electronics [of all sorts], the less connected they [are] to the lands, that they're less likely --[and] it's just, [they're not even] going outside and playing, right, [it's not like they have to go [hike] in the woods, just going outside [and playing]-- and so the less connected they are, the less they're going to care about these things.

Agricultural expansion is quickly chewing up native vegetation in the vast wooded savannas of Brazil's Cerrado biome, and a new study shows that those changes in land use are altering the region's water cycle.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

Forests: Threats to our forests Deforestation Results of deforestation Forests are cleared all around the world for a number of reasons, including: Harvesting of timber to produce wood and paper products Clearing land for farms, cash - crop plantations, and cattle ranching Clearing land for urban development, including homes and roads.

Unless you use ashes of wood, sea vegetation in your soil and with your food, as all healthy cultures past & present have done, and farm on silt rich bottom land or rich glacial soil you will be mineral deficient & no amount of partial supplementation or fat soluble vitamins will wotk.

We have found the Indians very faithful in their covenant of peace with us; very loving and ready to pleasure us: we often go to them, and they come to us; some of us have been fifty miles by land in the country with them; the occasions and relations whereof you shall understand by our general and more full declaration of such things as are worth the noting, yea, it hath pleased God so to possess the Indians with a fear of us, and love unto us, that not only the greatest king amongst them called Massasoit, but also all the princes and peoples round about us, have either made suit unto us, or been glad of any occasion to make peace with us,... so that there is now great peace amongst the Indians themselves, which was not formerly, neither would have been but for us; and we for our parts walk as peaceably and safely in the wood, as in the highways in England, we entertain them familiarly in our houses, and they as friendly bestowing their venison on us.

Landing on this watch was no easy task, there was a whole special selection of men's wood watches at JORD to choose from.

Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc.

This Thanksgiving, Metrograph revisits this classic story of the friendship that blossoms between a kid named Elliott and an alien whose ship crash - lands in the woods.

The Kings of Summer (R for profanity and underage alcohol consumption) Coming - of - age comedy about three teenagers (Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso and Moises Arias) who decide to demonstrate their independence by spending the summer living off the land while building a home in woods.

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming - of - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the lanOF SUMMER is a unique coming - of - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the lanof - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the lanof independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

Mushrooms taller than skyscrapers dot landscapes to the east, while wood and stone marvels of engineering are being constructed in the marshy coastal lands to the south.

We don't see much of the trip itself, but what we do see are aerial shots of the woods where a highway snakes its way through the land.

Max researched the history of the ship, created an Adobe Acrobat presentation about it, built a model from wood and Legos, and explained in detail how airplanes took off and landed on the ship's deck.

We're on a bespoke off - road course carved out of NOLA Motorsports Park's wooded land to sample the new Grabber A / Tx all - terrain tires.