Sentences with phrase «road cut»

How do the dynamics of predator and prey change due to the edge effects of road cuts or hard packed snow roads in the winter months?

For their study, the researchers considered a total of 232 carnivore species around the world (out of a total of ca. 270 existing species) and assessed how severely these are affected by roads cut through their habitat.

The protection status of several species that are severely affected by roads cut through their habitat should be reconsidered, the researchers say.

On a country road cutting across Vancouver Island with no painted center line, I exhilarated in the feel of tucking it in through one turn after another.

On Santa Cruz Island, California, in a 1994 study of 47 dens used by island spotted skunks, 29.8 % were under shrubs, 21.3 % in open grassland, 21.3 % in cavities in rocks, 10.6 % in road cuts, 10.6 % under human structures, and 6.4 % in cavities in roots and trunks of trees.

Prince Avalanche sees Rudd play Alvin, a man that has taken on a job painting lines on the long remote country roads cutting through the forests of Texas in 1988, a year after fires ripped through the state.

A 26 - mile stretch of paved road cuts neatly through the peninsula, part of a multi-million-dollar infrastructure plan to support the growth of the area.

In her address, the facilitator of the Project and member representing Irepodun, Ekiti, Oke - Ero and Isin Federal Constituency, Mrs. Funke Adedoyin said the 2.5 km road cut across three wards of Omu - Aran which she said would serve as an arterial road to connect the road which links Oke - Ero and Ekiti local government areas.

From the Tail, we headed for the Cherohala Skyway, a relatively new forty - three - mile road cutting through the Cherokee and Nantahala National Forests that offers Skyline Drive views and curves with almost no traffic.

It didn't take long to find some open roads cutting through the Italian countryside, and that's a good thing, because the Performante isn't exactly a great choice for road tripping.

The tiny towns and mountain villages with rocky dirt roads cutting through them were like scenes out of a movie — fences were built with large branches, sourced naturally from the rainforests all around.

Explore the Wild Island, where under a canopy of Spanish Moss, a single lane road cuts through the wilderness of one of the largest undeveloped barrier islands on the Atlantic Coast.

Though you can see the limestone in situ at many road cuts along US - 50, perhaps the most prominent examples in Bedford are the monuments and gravestones in the cemeteries lining the highway through town.

The beach road cutting through Juan Dolio is most - often walked by visitors and locals.

From the bay of Pangaiotu, we walk up on a steep paved road cutting through lush farmlands.

Further development through the years saw trails and roads cut through the area for business and industry, both for logging access to the raw timber, and for access to the native tanbark for the San Francisco tanneries.

When we reached the top by the shining granite walls of the road cut through the mountain, a huge sunburst illuminated the peak of Mount Brandon, and laid out before us were the dark tarns that held trout and the gleaming thread of the Cloghane River, where the salmon and white trout ran 3,000 feet below.

In a road cut near the Missouri River in central South Dakota, paleontologists uncovered signs of a fight to the death waged 73 million years ago in a shallow sea that covered much of what is now the Great Plains.

Discovered at a road cut on Route 377: fossilized oyster shells, sea urchins, sea biscuits, and a nice piece of petrified wood along the Brazos River.

Dens are constructed in roots and earth under shrubs, cavities in rocks, open grassy areas, road cuts, human - made structures, and trunks and roots of oaks.

The road cuts through a largely desolate landscape with high moutain ridges and tiny settlements punctuated with white churches and the odd clutch of palm trees.

In Bechers Bay, picnic tables are available at Water Canyon Beach (by the road cut at the end of the airstrip) and on the grass area of the historic ranch house.

Picnicking In Bechers Bay, picnic tables are available at Water Canyon Beach (by the road cut at the end of the airstrip) and on the grass area of the historic ranch house.

The sea cliffs and road cuts of the Headlands have exposed some of the finest examples of pillow basalt and radiolarian chert.

A paved (toll) road cut through the cliff has recently made this beautiful beach, which lies immediately below the estate, much more accessible.

This implies an explosion that never arrives and can be applied in a broader context — the burning wick surely will ignite dynamite (to open a mine, to make a road cut, to destroy a building, to alter land) or detonate a bomb of some kind (to kill, to subdue, to destroy), yet you never see it.

No more fighting bridge traffic or fighting for a seat on BART, and the fewer cars on the road cuts back on congestion, emissions and parking difficulty in the city.