Sentences with phrase «vast tracts of»

Estates such as Silver Lakes are virtually suburbs in their own right, often covering vast tracts of land and have thousands of homes in them.

Through judicial determinations and negotiated settlements, vast tracts of British Columbia's, and likely other provinces», territories will be found to be subject to valid claims of Aboriginal title.

At the bottom are lots of states with vast tracts of rural land: North and South Dakota, Idaho, and Arkansas, all clocking in around 20 - 22 lawyers per 10,000 people.

This is the first in a series of three articles looking at the six reserved legal activities found under the Legal Services Act 2007 and, more importantly, considering the vast tracts of non-reserved legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land grab.

The 1997 Delgamuukw decision evoked visions of vast tracts of hunting territory, «exclusively used and occupied» by a First Nation (essentially, being under the sovereign power of a First Nation), that were declared to be, in the present day, lands from which the First Nation was entitled to exclude all others, even the Crown.

Early signs of this are the record - high grain prices of the last few years, the restriction on grain exports by exporting countries, and the acquisition of vast tracts of land abroad by grain - importing countries.

In Asia, shrimp farming has destroyed vast tracts of mangrove swamps.

«With lifetimes of hands - on experience drawn from across vast tracts of Amazon rainforest, Indigenous groups are well - placed to provide leadership in efforts to measure and monitor their forests - forests which they, themselves, have sustainably managed for centuries,» said WHRC Assistant Scientist Wayne Walker.

But when plantations and processing plants move in, they clear cut vast tracts of tropical rainforest, destroying critical habitat for endangered species and violating the rights of forest - dependent communities.

«[S] ince vast tracts of land worldwide have experienced similar booms of agricultural productivity in recent decades, it is possible that other areas of the world have experienced similar climatic effects due to agricultural intensification, especially in light of recent observational connections between extreme temperatures and agricultural intensification in other intensely cropped regions (Mueller et al., 2017).»

The country has vast tracts of pasture and agricultural land that are being underutilized or have been abandoned, but rapidly appreciating land prices, coupled with poor governance and inconsistent enforcement of environmental laws, means that it is often more profitable to clear new forest land than to rehabilitate pasture.

The forest's only serious holdout has been the vast tracts of ruggedly inaccessible wilderness which rest high upon the eastern slopes of the Andes.

When the aforementioned families protected land for public benefit, they were able to safeguard vast tracts of pristine wilderness.

The Trump administration's move to start rewriting a plan for vast tracts of Southern California desert lands could have long - term repercussions for renewable energy production and wildlife conservation.

And vast tracts of the ocean hardly got measured, ever, especially the deepest parts.

Vast tracts of land were cleared of forest cover and given over to tobacco plantations which changed drainage patterns and coastal aquifer recharge rates.

The US Navy plans that its new Ford - class aircraft carriers will remain in service to the year 2100 and beyond... foreseeably in a strategic environment in which the Arctic ice is gone, and the Greenland and Antarctic ice is melting at a pace sufficient to flood vast tracts of America's coastal states.

Ditto for the design features of a carrier operating in an environment where «vast tracts of America's coastal states» are «flooded» vs. current designs.

The combination of agriculture and the ravenous demand for wood led to the deforestation of vast tracts of what is now the eastern U.S..

This is the same guy who just green - lighted offshore Arctic oil drilling and promised to open vast tracts of public land to heavily - subsidized coal mining.

The Dutch multi-utility company Delta, which constructed and operates the 150 million euro plant, is calling it a carbon - neutral effort as it will preclude the emission of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane from chicken waste, which is usually laid out as fertilizer over vast tracts of farmland.

Now very often forming blocking fronts helping vast tracts of ocean to warm unhindered and when that causes sufficient evaporation to form hurricanes but this time with no roof so the vertical volume of super saturated air is greater thus causing stronger hurricanes or deeper rain depressions etc..

Vast tracts of forests in Indonesia are being burned to make way for plam oil plantations.

We mow down vast tracts of forests to build oversized houses.

Gillis looks at the warning signs from the world's forests and the signals aren't good: wildfires, drought and insect infestations are putting vast tracts of forests under extreme stress, leading to feedback loops that result in more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Sometimes she paints over vast tracts of the canvas; other times there's a pentimento or perhaps an image intended to be visible beneath the surface.

Neverwinter Strongholds are coming to PC players this August 11th and bring with them vast tracts of land to fight over.

Their affinity with the sea enabled them to dominate trade across vast tracts of the Mediterranean and beyond.

Great Barrier Island, the final frontier - Guarding the outer Hauraki Gulf, Great Barrier Island has unspoiled beaches and vast tracts of native forest.

Along with flinty mining history, its vast tracts of mountainous wilderness that define this region, the West Coast is Fiordland's closest rival in the untamed nature stakes.

Despite the critical role they play in coastal ecosystems, vast tracts of mangrove forests are commonly cleared to make way for shrimp ponds or beachfront developments.

Historic routes with grand names, like Empire Builder, California Zephyr, Southwest Chief and Coast Starlight provide opportunities to see vast tracts of America in a comfortable environment.

A couple of small examples might be Maui Land and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New Mexico.

The riches of the world were there for the taking in the sixteenth century, and there were vast tracts of ocean that had never been crossed.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century the Mexican government — in eternal social and financial turmoil — started selling off vast tracts of land in its desolate northern provinces on the notion that wealthy American entrepreneurs would exploit the land by building infrastructure that the government in Mexico City could not afford.

The same goes for vast tracts of the planet.

Vast tracts of anecdotal evidence confirms how fickle and sensitive Amazon's popularity - determining algorithms are, and what a difference being further down a list of search results can mean to sales.

With the World Bank documenting that in vast tracts of India on any given day, one public - school classroom in five has no teacher present, parents craving an education for their kids must look to other providers.

In vast tracts of the country, meaningful deliberation has not even begun.

And if the state of the «global environment» were of significant concern, then we'd be asking ourselves how to get ruminants back onto the vast tracts of land that we've removed them from — land that has been pillaged by plows and chemicals.

Instead, the disease - linked genetic changes appear to occur in vast tracts of sequence between genes where ENCODE has identified many regulatory sites.

Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.

The ultimate goal of Woolly Mammoth revival is to bring back this extinct species so that healthy herds may one - day re-populate vast tracts of tundra and boreal forest in Eurasia and North America.

The study shows that these synthetic genome readers behave like «molecular sleds» and slide effortlessly across vast tracts of the genome.

Moreover, utility - scale power farms will require vast tracts of land.

During the 1800s vast tracts of farmland and factories beat back forests and sucked up resources that were mined and drilled out of the ground.

The incoming administration will have full control over leasing of renewable energy on federal lands and waters, including vast tracts of public lands across the West and the open waters off the East and West coasts.

In clearing vast tracts of land, those prolific loggers released so much sand and dirt that open - water bays turned into swamps.

Now, countries including China, Kuwait and Sweden are snapping up vast tracts of agricultural land in poorer nations, especially in Africa, to grow biofuels and food for themselves.

Researchers are applying observations made by Charles Darwin's grandson to find that small organisms carry water with them as they go — which means they might play a big role in mixing vast tracts of ocean water