Sentences with phrase «square miles covered»

Known as the Garden Isle, Kauai is the least populated of the major Hawaiian isles, with more than half of its 562 square miles covered by forests and nearly all of it green.

Moose, Kelly, and I snuggle up in a king - size bed before getting another early start to take a slight detour south and visit Arches National Park, a remarkable 120 square miles covered with elaborate entrada sandstone structures that have been eroded by rainwater over hundreds of millions of years.

Not exact matches

The field, covering nearly 75 square miles, was discovered in 1911 and has produced over 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), making it one of the most productive fields in the United States.

Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

Coast Guard boat and helicopter crews, and the Mobile fire and police departments «saturated a search area covering three square miles» near the mouth of the Mobile River, and the investigation continues, a Coast Guard spokesperson said.

Western Watersheds Project and Center for Biological Diversity also want to block upcoming sales covering 1,800 square miles (4,662 square kilometers) in those four states plus Idaho.

It included a table - top exercise that covered 42,000 nautical square miles in the Gulf of Alaska.

The fire area covered more than 100 square miles over eight counties.

With more square miles (kilometers) than Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco combined, Detroit didn't have enough tax revenue to reliably cover pensions, retiree health insurance and buckets of debt sold to keep the budget afloat.

The four artificial islands of the Forest City site cover nearly eight square miles.

Shanghai's pilot free trade zone, initiated last September, is about 11 square miles and covers four existing special trade zones in the city's Pudong district, including one near the Pudong airport.

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President Jerry Helgeson broke into the industry in Greeley, Colo., 34 years ago for just $ 5,000 before growing his distribution empire into a $ 60 million conglomerate that covers about 18,000 square miles with 3.6 million to 3.8 million cases sold annually.

The Columbia Basin is the drainage basin of the Columbia River and covers about 260,000 square miles of the Pacific Northwest.

Located on Long Island, 29 miles from Times Square (and from such other nighttime institutions as «21» and the Stork Club), the new track is dedicated to the proposition that the New Yorker and his lady will willingly cover a distance of ground to spend a sporting evening in an atmosphere of nightclub comfort.

Nearly 3.5 million people live in the area served by the food bank, a territory that covers more than 6,000 square miles and much of the Chicago area and its fringes, including Kankakee and Winnebago Counties, but not Cook County.

Community Link strives to alleviate hunger by providing, at no charge, food and personal care items to those in need, covering 178 square miles in Northwest Tarrant County: 76052, 76114, 76131, 76135, 76137, 76177, 76179 (any family with a student attending EMS - ISD).

Currently about 240 square miles, it covers the entire towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island and part of Brookhaven Town, plus seven incorporated villages.

The existing 105th Precinct covers nearly 13 square miles and has its stationhouse on the northern end of the vertically - long territory.

The 13th Congressional district, redrawn in 2013, covers stretches of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx, and at just 10 square miles, it is the smallest district in terms of geographic size in the country.

While he's visited the Adirondacks plenty, most of his trips have been confined to the park's northern reaches: It's possible to draw a 2,400 square mile rectangle on a map with its eastern border near Saratoga and its southern line a few miles above Interstate 90, covering locations such as Lake Pleasant and Great Sacandaga Lake, without capturing any addresses contained in Cuomo's schedules.

It will contain a $ 20 million annual increase in funding for security in major parks across the five boroughs and the expansion of a crime - fighting tool known as ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to detect gunfire, to cover 60 square miles across the city.

The district encompasses about 7,400 square miles (Ulster covers 1,124 square miles) stretching from Orange County on the Hudson, west to the Southern Tier and north into the Adirondacks.

The ShotSpotter program, which relies on sound sensors placed in dangerous neighborhoods to alert authorities to possible gunfire, would also grow to cover more than 60 square miles — more than twice the area it now covers — at a total cost of $ 5.5 million.

We cover approximately a 2 square mile radius.

Erie County is a metropolitan center located on the western border of New York State covering 1,058 square miles and consisting of 3 cities and 25 town governments.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

The watershed of the world's third largest estuary — the Chesapeake Bay — covers 64,000 square miles and is home to almost 18 million people who benefit from the flood control, food sources and recreational opportunities that the ecosystem provides.

Around the same time, volcanoes a million times bigger than Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing enormous clouds of dust and gas into the sky and covering the ground with 2 million square miles of molten lava.

An oasis on the Silk Road trading route, the sea once covered more than 26,000 square miles across the heart of Central Asia, including parts of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

SEA LION 911: Staff and volunteers cover a range of more than 600 square miles, locating and transporting stranded, sick or injured animals to the center for care.

2012: Total ozone reached 124 DU on Oct. 1 and 136 DU on Oct. 5 with the hole covering 8.2 million square miles (equivalent to the area of North America).

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

Ivory - bills were known to travel far and wide to find recently dead trees suitable for roosting, and any now living could cover hundreds of square miles.

Alaska is the most glaciated U.S. state, with glaciers covering about 29,000 square miles, about 5 percent of its surface.

Other widespread population buildups can be toxic — as in May when a bloom of dinoflagellates covered nearly 4,000 square miles off China with a so - called red tide that killed off millions of fish.

«It looks like Mars,» said Marsha Monestersky, program director of Forgotten People, an advocacy organization for the western region of the vast Navajo Nation, which covers 27,000 square miles in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

Amazingly, the blast had flattened millions of trees in a broad, butterfly - shaped swath covering more than 2,000 square kilometers (775 square miles).

Titan's dunes are gigantic by any standard, covering about 13 percent of the moon's surface, about 4 million square miles in all.

At least 173 people lost their lives in the fires, which covered more than 1,700 square miles.

Last summer the Tortugas Ecological Reserve was established 80 miles west of Key West; it covers just 197 square miles of coral reefs and fish spawning grounds, but that makes it the largest reserve yet in American waters.

This would have subjected those lease sales, such as the sale of oil and gas leases covering nearly 46,000 square miles (120, 000 square kilometers) in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska, to additional regulatory oversight, he added.

A long, crescent - shaped lick of fertile flatlands that stretches more than 450 miles and covers 22,000 square miles (slightly smaller than West Virginia), the Central Valley is nestled between the coastal mountains on the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east.

It covered about 1,300 square miles, an area as big as Ohio's Cuyahoga, Portage and Summit counties combined.

Florida's Everglades — the «river of grass» — once covered nearly 4,200 square miles.

About one third of the Baltic — an area covering more than 38,000 square miles — is lifeless.

Knutie and Clayton say their method might help the endangered mangrove finches, with only 60 cotton dispensers needed to cover the less than half a square mile inhabited by the birds on Isabela Island.

In 1991, tropical Andean glaciers covered some 1,065 square miles, with 70 percent in Peru, 20 percent in Bolivia, and the rest in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

The Rose Atoll near American Samoa covers more than 13,000 square miles, including coral reefs and a lagoon that serves as a home to sea turtles, birds and giant clams.

Antarctica's sea - ice cover was also greatly reduced, measuring about 154,000 square miles (398,858 kilometers) smaller than it was in 1986, the previous record - holding year.