Sentences with word «scrubland»

But Oakbank needs to raise funds to further enhance its sports facilities, which it plans to do by selling for redevelopment an area of scrubland on the school site.

If the Earth's temperature rises by 4 °C, flowering subalpine pastures could turn into desert scrubland dominated by sagebrush and other woody shrubs.

Ancient lakes near the Pacific coast of the United States, it turned out, show a shift to cold - weather plant species at roughly the time when the Younger Dryas was changing German pine forests into scrublands like those of modern Siberia.

With just slight shifts in rainfall or other factors, people living in what is now tropical rainforest might suddenly find themselves in scrubland populated by a different mix of plants and animals — where people's livelihoods might have to change dramatically.

China's Grain - for - Green Program, the world's largest reforestation effort, has transformed 69.2 million acres of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest.

Hike from Princetown along cliff tops through coastal scrubland and low heath to Glenample and be rewarded with spectacular views of the 12 Apostles.

Within this region, it inhabits scrubland habitats below 1,800 m (5,900 ft) dominated by plants such as cholla, Jatropha, and organ - pipe cactus, and in agricultural land.

The only thing I did not get to see was the famed «Sandbox» (a special workout that Shaw devised which an athlete performs in a 50 - yard by 10 - yard area hacked out of native scrubland and filled ankle - deep with thick, cloying sand), but this camp was all about strength, flexibility, and speed.

Garages on scrublands, old industrial land, roadside verges and empty spaces — these are the kinds of places most people would agree could be better used for housing.

The government - backed effort, known as the Grain - for - Green Program, has transformed 28 million hectares (69.2 million acres) of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest in an effort to prevent erosion and alleviate rural poverty.

The Oudtshoorn Golf Course is stuated in the Little Karoo, and forms an oasis of green fairways in the dry scrubland that is so characteristic of the area.

It is a vast sandy scrubland, ugly as a bed sore.

As the Iberian lynx lives in the Mediterranean scrubland, its habitat needs protecting.

But in a way that calls to mind the recent Jon McGregor novel Reservoir 13, it is pricklingly attuned to the bleak commonalities of all high - profile British crime cases: the tearful press conferences in village halls, the straggly lines of volunteers scouring scrubland for clues, the bouquets of dead flowers sellotaped to telegraph poles and fence posts, and most of all the public hunger for answers.

Instead, Heineman takes us to the Arizona border, where he introduces us to Tim Foley, leader of the self - proclaimed Arizona Border Recon, a volunteer group that patrols the state's frontier scrublands in search both of illegal immigrants and cartel drug mules.

Gore Verbinski and his visual consultant Roger Deakins work marvels, both in the animal characterisation and the parched desert scrubland where most of it takes place.

The beauty of the backdrops gradually increases, shifting from sparse, stormy scrubland to lush, heavenly mountain ranges as the journey progresses and the humanity seeps back into the tightly bound Blocker.

Even though the world of this film consists of outstretched carparks, giant dumpsters, novelty fast food concessions and scads of overgrown scrubland, Baker constantly assures that there is always a dash of fairy dust in the air if you know where to look for it.

Pearce, a Jersey native, locates all this in two contrasting settings: affluent suburbs that abut scrubland and jagged cliffs.

The house was part of an old ranch stuck out in the desert scrubland near Muroc, in the high desert of the Mojave, fifty miles west of Victorville.

Saracen Bay to Lazy Beach is an easy 20 - minute walk on a flat sandy path through jungle and open scrubland.

Choose to go hiking across the rolling scrublands just outside the city, ride an Icelandic horse through the Hafnarfjörður lava field, or go kayaking along the coast.

These range from all singing, all dancing sites complete with swimming pools and other frills to patches of scrubland with little in the way of facilities.

Semi-automatic quad - bikes allow you to take in the stunning views as you traverse 22 kilometres of Karoo scrubland (no racing allowed).

The diversity of landscapes along this drive switches between rainforests, dune scrubland, endless beaches and cliffs composed of limestone and sandstone.

With a north facing sunroom and balcony overlooking a lush green valley, and located on an established 135 hectare sixth generation farm and orchard, guests can roam the walking trails amongst the cattle and goats, watch birds, view the exotic trees and gardens and explore the natural scrubland — a photographer's delight.

As dawn breaks over the game reserve soft, clear light spreads over 22,000 hectares of wild, sub-tropical scrubland.

Spectacularly tracking each fatal bullet fired in flight, the camera whips across the battlefield and into an internal view of the projectile's unfortunate target to show bones being broken, organs obliterated, faces imploded, and brain matter strewn far and wide over the African scrubland.

The Carnegie study found that of the 161 planned or operating utility - scale solar power developments in California, more than half have been or will be built on natural shrub and scrublands totaling about 145 square miles of land, roughly the land area of the city of Bakersfield, Calif..

The results are extraordinary: in the space of a few decades, one area of Slovenia, for instance, has transformed from scrubland to dense forest, supporting species that had not been seen there for centuries.

Cropland also absorbs far less carbon than the rain forests or even scrubland that it replaces.

Zigadene lilies (Zigadenus fremontii) can be seen along trails and among the low bushes in the coastal scrubland and prairie.

A camel riding experience through native scrubland, beneath the imposing Dutchman Range East.

One day last summer, I visited a solar test site in a walled compound near the town of Challakere, in the dry scrubland a few hundred kilometers north of Bangalore.

Unlike the forest, these live in scrublands and rocky outcroppings, so they will do better with overhead heat, a sandy substrate, low humidity and water provided by a small clip of damp moss at the cool end of the cage.

The undulating fairways are laid amidst barren scrubland and semi-rough of natural grasses.

Hernandez's team found that there are more than 8,500 square miles of land throughout California that is less environmentally sensitive than desert scrubland and agricultural land that would be best suited for future solar power development.

Landsberg is the founder of an art project in Utah's west desert called Zaqistan, which consists of two rather inaccessible acres of scrubland that has been given the meta - contextual -LSB-...]

Despite the peacock's over-the-top tail and infamous strutting display, the birds need help finding each other in India's dense forests and scrubland.

The bumpy country road wound deeper into the scrubland until at last an undulating shape appeared in the distance.

Some 800 to 1200 former forest elephants now live here on grass - and scrublands that resemble an East African savanna, de Silva says.

Development, drought, and other factors have conspired to turn wide stretches from grassland and farmland into dusty deserts and scrubland.

An analysis by the PREDICTS team found that grasslands, savannahs (mixed grass and woodlands) and scrublands have been most affected by biodiversity loss, followed closely by many of the world's forests and woodlands.

With the slim build and short hair of a greyhound, this West African guardian produce might be a suitable selection for a cattle operation in the deserts and scrublands of the southwestern U.S..

They are from Pakistan, famously desert country, but they tend to frequent rocky outcroppings and scrubland.

In drainage ditches and seeps, look for a delicate yellow flower, the seep monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus); a little later, look for its cousin on the drier hills of the scrubland, the sticky monkey flower (Mimulus aurantiacus).

To explore beyond the picnic area, take the Fingal Beach Walk, a 1.5 kilometre trek through the scrublands down to Fingal Beach.

Set amongst secluded vineyards and scrublands, McLaren Ridge 1 is only five minutes from McLaren Vales» renowned wineries.

The area's scrublands are covered with a wide variety of flowering shrubs including California sage brush, coyote brush, poison oak, lizard tail, cream bush, osoberry, coffee berry, and twinberry.