Sentences with phrase «vast acreages of»

As the Canadian climate has warmed, pine beetles have spread across vast acreages of Canadian forest land: estimated to presently constitute 7 percent of Earth's total forests.

In the vast acreage of the Michelin proving ground at Gross - Dlln, near Berlin, we run out of road at 199 mph.

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In 1905, cattle baron Walter Vail began buying vast acreage surrounding the town of Temecula.

People ask what I do with the vast, grassy acreage of the offseason, how I spend my time when there's nothing to do.

The vast majority of this acreage is forests, which are key to our local resiliency to climate change.

The vast majority of the acreage is not part of the original Akron Falls Park parcel, but was added on to the Park in 1966 and is now used primarily for active recreation including local soccer organizations.

Ultimately, what is needed is a pheromone treatment cheap and effective enough to be practical for both small, privately held acreage and for the vast stretches of public forest that are rapidly transforming from vibrant green to that disturbing shade of brown.

Surveys of American farmers by the Department of Agriculture show that the use of Bt [pest - resistant] corn aimed at the corn borer, for example, hasn't done much to reduce the application of pesticides to corn, because the vast majority of corn acreage isn't treated with pesticide to control that pest.

And many types of biofuel require vast amounts of land, leaving less acreage available for food crops.

To be sure, there are vast acreages bordering the semiarid areas which never should have been applied to crop growing, at least until the uncultivated lands of the humid regions, already provided with natural and social facilities for a more comfortable existence, had been more fully utilized.

Much acreage is devoted to the vast agricultural enterprises of the area.

Some of them are also mind - blowingly large, taking up huge amounts of acreage and involving vast changes in elevation.

Likewise, repeal would be responsive to the specific concerns of voices in the West, where vast acreages are under federal control.