Sentences with phrase «valley bottom»

Good years for whitebark pine seed production mean good years for grizzly bears - abundant food far, far away from livestock, birdfeeders, orchards, garbage and other temptations in valley bottoms crowded with roads, development and people.

This shows that most of the material eroded over the last two centuries still remains as «legacy sediment,» the scientists write, piled up at the base of hillslopes and along valley bottoms.

The majority of winter precipitation in Montana falls as snow, and the precipitation that accumulates as snowpack in the mountains is the most significant source of water to valley bottoms throughout the summer.

I've been fortunate to ski at many resorts around the world, some little more than bumps in the boreal forest, others alpine to valley bottom village thigh - burners.

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

«We had a valley margin forest growing right next to the valley bottom in conjunction with all these wetlands,» Elliott said.

An embankment near the base of a slope will prevent the cold air sinking to the valley bottom, leaving it hanging around the lower slopes of the vineyards.

One possibility, says Beltrando, is to build embankments with holes to allow the cold air to escape into the valley bottoms.

Down below in the valley bottom the mine was marked out by a line of wooden towers and tall red - brick chimneys standing across from a huge man - made heap of slate - grey waste, and stretching up from it on all sides row upon row of squat grey houses, monotonous and momochrome, straddled the hillsides like an encamped army of insects.

5) Fernie is an «upside down mountain» meaning that, thanks to folding and faulting from plate tectonics, the oldest layers of rock are up on our mountain peaks while the youngest are at the valley bottom.

We descend to our camp in the valley bottom at Paccaymayo.