Sentences with phrase «once vast forest»
The past 150 years of clearing, regrading and development have left only remnants of the once vast forest that cloaked the Puget Sound region.
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Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly.
The park is one of the last major remnants of the vast primary tropical forest that once spanned across present - day Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and is the largest island of forest remaining in West Africa, according to the UNESCO -LSB-...]
Play time — and rest assured, there's plenty of that — is split once again between the deserts, forests and caves that supply not only hunt targets but also a vast assortment of raw materials (of course, one generally equals the other), and a hub village where you temper the weapons, shape the armour and concoct the many, many items that (might) enable you to come off best in an encounter with a crocodile made of magma.
Some students have a view of the polluted coastline where their parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents used to make a living, the abandoned mining equipment that once tied their families» livelihoods to the company store, or the vast clear - cut space that was once a forest amid rolling hills.
to clean energy; yes to dense, beautiful, and affordable communities; yes to safer streets for everyone from children to the elderly; yes to a walkable, bikable, transit - rich transportation system; yes to electric vehicles, internet - speed ride sharing, and the smart grid; yes to wind, solar, and ultra-efficiency; yes to innovation and science and solutions we haven't even imagined yet; yes to restored, carbon - absorbing grasslands, to oceans no longer endangered by acidification, and to towering Northwest forests regrown to once again capture vast quantities of carbon.
Fracking opened up vast swaths of once - quiet forest and farmland to the constant grinding of truck traffic heading to drilling rigs that operate all day and night, poisoning the air with diesel fumes and sometimes spilling toxic drilling fluids onto fields and into streams.