Sentences with word «pastureland»

Each year for the past thirty years, Ravenna students have contributed their labor and management in lieu of rent for an 80 - acre tract of pastureland owned by the school district.

The same time last year, JBS was the target of a Greenpeace report that accused it of continuing to level rainforest in the Amazon to create pastureland for cattle and to grow feed crops.

In 1998 an orange juice maker dumped 12,000 tons of orange peels on degraded pastureland in Costa Rica — transforming it into vine - rich jungle.

Worse yet, much of this land is unsuitable for use as pastureland and, when used for such purposes, is gradually ruined for any future use, including forestation (Tosi).

In addition to its deforestation pledge, Brazil has committed to restoring 15m hectares of degraded pasturelands by 2030 and enhancing 5m hectares of systems integrating the crop, livestock and forest components together by 2030.

Premier Proteins» grass - fed beef comes from cattle that roam their entire lives on open pastureland in California and Missouri, eating only a diet of fresh grasses and plants, Haas says.

A historic Tudor - style home is settled in the midst of rolling pastureland with multi-island views from Moloka'i to Kaho'olawe.

Nestled on 100 acres of picturesque pastureland with undulating rural views this luxurious and spaciously built home offers a warm and relaxed

Here at this rural, rustic cabin in peaceful Keokea, daytime views of green pastureland rolling towards the sea morph into sights of constellations... Read More

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.

For example, he notes, Brazil has so far achieved just 10 % of the original 15 million - hectare goal for pasture restoration (meant to be reached by 2020), so the two targets won't necessarily add up to 30 million hectares of restored pastureland by 2030.

When we acquired our property of 352 hectares (870 acres) in 1972 at the base of the Arenal Volcano — including 110 hectares (272 acres) of natural rainforest, 120 hectares (297 acres) of reforested areas, and also pastureland — we adopted environmentally friendly practices from the start.

Most conservationists had assumed that new crop fields in the Amazon region usually spring up on former pasturelands.

Nestled on 100 acres of picturesque pastureland with undulating rural views this luxurious and spaciously built home offers a warm and relaxed atmosphere with 4 spacious queen bedrooms with private balconies and private ensuites.

It is a beautiful drive through pastureland and rainforest that gives you peeks of the Arenal Volcano, and lets you see wildlife along the way... if you slow down and pay attention.

Likewise, converting woody savannas to bioenergy sacrifices the ecosystem's abundant carbon storage and biodiversity, while converting pasturelands sacrifices their ability to provide food from livestock.

(Bloomberg)-- As Don Huffines sees it, Donald Trump's election instantly made his Dallas - area pastureland much more valuable.

The Community Pasture Program was set up during the dustbowl 1930s to rehabilitate pastureland for grazing — 61 community pastures were created in Saskatchewan, 23 in Manitoba and two in Alberta.

Whenever there was a dry season of sufficient length for the annual burnings, the brushlands were made into natural pasturelands.

Edersheim claims there were shepherds at a place called Migdal Eder, near Bethlehem, who were commissioned by the Jewish priests to keep temple flocks in a specific pastureland year - round.

- They consume very little meat (they have minimal pastureland) except on rare feast days.

Not to mention the vast amounts of harmful methane that beef cows produce, and the deforestation involved in creating new pastureland for grazing.

The picturesque farm is nestled in rolling hills on 1,200 acres of pastureland near Petaluma, and hosts an organic herd of more than 200 cows.

A very high proportion of farmland in most New York State ag districts is not used for agricultural production or even for inactive pastureland, however.

The latter may appeal especially to ranch managers whose grassy pastureland is becoming drier and overrun by woody plants, a process triggered by climate change.

Greater swings in dry and wet spells makes grass growth difficult, a challenge for pasturelands around the world

Milk thistle is capable of adapting to various types of soil and climates, but it does grow best in fertile, overgrazed pastureland.

What follows is, like many of Payne's films, a road movie of sorts, winding its way through Wyoming and South Dakota, slate - colored skies hanging over pastureland and lonely blacktop, last - stop diners standing on the edge of nowhere.

The Pleiades meet pastureland at this rustic cabin in rural Keokea.

Ride across pastureland to the 6,000 ft. elevation and the border with Polipoli forest, and get an authentic glimpse into Upcountry living on this family - run Keokea ranch.

This charming Upcountry property offers 310 acres of lush Maui pastureland, stunning ocean views and countless building sites for a picturesque ranch estate.

From the forest floor to the emergent layer and from the recently disturbed pastureland to the ancient rainforest, life at the Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa flourishes.

We brought back cattle to some of the grazing lands, and 300 acres of damaged pastureland was planted with eucalyptus and Honduran pine; these plantations are still in place today.

Riparian ecosystems, primary rainforests, secondary rainforests, premontane rainforests, and agricultural pasturelands all exist within the boundaries of the Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa.

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We lost 6,624 sq km, despite the fact that there is already nearly 100,000 sq km of pastureland under - utilised in the Amazon,» said Paulo Barreto, a researcher with NGO Imazon, which has a parallel deforestation monitoring that had already forecast the slowdown of the deforestation.

Changes in land use are calculated from historical reconstructions of cropland and pastureland changes.

Of course, carpets like this are just the beginning; there are other ideas like recycled wool rugs that imitate the look of Argentinian pasturelands, or bathroom carpets that use your wet feet to water moss, or even twisting, modular planters that conceal niches of moss.

The article also mentioned installing solar panels for shade in pastureland which would be particularly suitable for Australia.

As Niman knows, we can not use only pastureland to produce the amount of meat that is currently consumed in this country.

Nowadays, the property comprises 1600 hectares of land, of which 700 hectares are set aside for the conservation of the tropical dry forest; 575 hectares are used as pastureland and 325 hectares are being reforested with tropical species in danger of extinction.

A winding road rapidly ascends past green pastureland to the moonscape summit.

Replanting forests, restoring degraded pastureland, promoting low - carbon farm practices, and ending illegal deforestation in the Amazon.

They rode out along the fence line and across the open pastureland.

The 500 acre farm, in the same family for four generations, has largely been replanted from former pastureland.

Unlike the rolling pastureland in Marbletown, the New Paltz site has lots of trees.

The horizon moves steadily upwards from sea level through pastureland to the mountains of Wales.

When Robert Brace set out to convert pastureland to cropland on his farm in Erie County, little did he know that this simple, age - old farming practice would lead to decades of litigation that has cost him over a million dollars in fines and legal fees.

Well, with high CO2, the buzz in pasture science journals is the improvement of pasturelands.

As an article co-authored by two environmental experts and Bob Kingston of the PSAC's Agriculture Union notes, there appear to be no plans for maintaining the careful stewardship of these pasturelands once passed down to the provinces and sold off.