Sentences with phrase «rural desert areas»

We also provide humane trapping services through our Desert Canid Project to dogs dumped in extremely rural desert areas, as well as sick coyotes and other desert canids.

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According to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, there are 23.5 million Americans — including 6.5 million children — who live in rural and urban areas across the country who lack access to convenient and affordable nutritious foods known as «food deserts.»

On patrol one day last fall in Blythe, another California town along the Colorado, Matuska drove his SUV looking for large green lawns in rural areas that he hadn't noticed before — a new farm field or some other sign of small - scale irrigation bringing life to a red desert.

Dubbed «charter school deserts,» these areas are predominantly located in urban and rural settings and represent populations of students in most need of alternative school options.

Our topic under the umbrella of food insecurity is the existence of food deserts in both rural and urban areas within the U.S. and how they compare and / or contrast in their causes and potential...

And via improved WiFi availability and otherwise, we could make digital library books more accessible than now for students and others in high - poverty neighborhoods and remote rural areas — «book deserts,» as some call them.

Yet the reality is that, while there are a lot of lawyers in certain geographic areas and certain specialties, in many rural areas — sometimes referred to as «legal deserts» — there are actually far too few lawyers.

The prairie, rural, and desert areas may have wide open spaces that aren't close to fire protection.

The problem is particularly pronounced in rural areas, where 51 percent of people live in child care deserts.

Even with the inclusion of family child care providers, there is a vast undersupply of child care infrastructure in rural areas, despite the fact that home - based child care is the most common child care setting in rural areas.13 Since many family child care homes are only licensed to serve between six and 12 children, an area may contain several small providers while still qualifying as a child care desert.14

Meanwhile, residents who live in both rural and urban areas are being urged to cut back their water use, stop washing their vehicles as often, replace lawns with desert - like landscaping and replace washing machines and dishwashers with more efficient appliances.