Sentences with phrase «ranch land into»

«While there is still work to be done in driving to completion of the vehicle development program,» Whitesides said, «the dedication event is an opportunity for us to recognize all the people in New Mexico and around the world who have worked so hard to turn a patch of ranch land into the world's first commercial spaceport.»

Not exact matches

It targets recreational ranch land in the Rocky Mountains, buying rundown ranches in all - cash deals and bringing in a team of experts, CFI Global Fisheries Management, to rehabilitate the rivers and streams into thriving fisheries.

«We found that nearly a billion metric tons of above - ground carbon stocks in Peru are at imminent risk for emission into the atmosphere due to land uses such as fossil fuel oil exploration, cattle ranching, oil palm plantations and gold mining,» Asner said.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

Here we have a tough - but - tender cowgirl working her dead father's ranch with only a lovable grizzled old coot for a ranchhand; a somber villain moving through his dark house like Dracula in his castle, hatching designs on the heroine's land as well as her body; a land - grabbing industrialist conspiring with the local banker to turn rangeland into oil wells; a tall, quiet wrangler winning the girl's heart and saving her land to boot; singing cowboys, fireside heart - to - hearts, a crisis with hero and heroine trapped by villain in a burning building, a climactic shootout, and boy - gets - girl.

Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever - present wind by retreating into books.

Rancho San Marcos, tucked deep into the valley floor of the Santa Ynez Mountains, has kept the essence of the old ranch which was located here since the Spanish land grant of 1804.

Pedal into the heart of the Santa Barbara's wine country and explore the Foxen Canyon Trail or Santa Rita Hills, perfect for cycling through scenic vineyards and ranch lands.

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The group wanted her to study the land they were ranching to see if putting compost on grasslands might stimulate the landscape to siphon carbon out of the atmosphere and incorporate it into the soil.

Fueled by surging demand from China and other emerging economies, and boosted by the convergence of food and energy markets in response to American and European incentives for biofuels, the worldwide commodity boom over the past few years helped trigger a land rush that precipitated the conversion of natural forests into farms, plantations, and ranches.

Our love of the land, experience, focused marketing strategies and commitment to the client has developed Mason & Morse Ranch Company into one of Americas» leading premier farm ranch land and luxury real estate brokerage firms in the country.