Sentences with phrase «where rural land»

He also made special mention of the shire of Melton in Melbourne's west, a focus of residential development, where rural land values surged between 15 and 20 per cent over the past two years.

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The first is the redrawing of Highwood's boundaries where new electoral lines have transformed the riding from a large rural land base to a small, dense area of people that more closely resembles an urban riding.

The rural property covers 200,000 hectares and is expected to fetch about $ 18 million, especially in the current buying environment where overseas investors have been competitively snapping up major cattle stations and agricultural land.

Democrats have landed a top recruit in a rural Maine district where candidate profiles matter — even more so than most places.

These projects show the value of the shooting community in managing rural land where most conservation organisations have difficulty accessing and influencing.

Wierzbowska and her team took advantage of Poland's strict management of its rural lands, which are divvied up into 49 hunting districts where the mortality of game species must be reported every year.

Mark first developed a passion for plant science while serving as an agroforestry volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps, where he started a reforestation program that brought iguana ranching and sustainable land management practices to his site in rural Panama.

Early on, he proposes to her by showing her the land he has purchased in rural Virginia, where they both live.

The launch took place at the College's Kirkley Hall campus, where business professionals and partners found out about the new venture and talked to the first cohort of Career College land - based and rural tourism students.

Her novel Q Road investigates the lives of a rural community where development pressures are bringing unwelcome change in the character of the land.

And then we take the remaining 172,000 acres and assign that a value of $ 1,500 an acre and we consider that to be either rural or swampland, and the $ 1,500 estimate is pretty much where the land has been going — rural land has been selling for around these last few years and when we net out the liabilities, we get an equity value of $ 4.4 billion, which is right around our $ 50 fair value estimate.

Puppy mills are more common in rural areas, where land is cheap, barns are plentiful and the roads seldom - traveled.

Helen Moat roamed the hidden corners of rural Cyprus and discovered a land where life continues as it has for centuries — with a focus on fabulous food, generous hospitality and a love of nature More

Helen Moat roamed the hidden corners of rural Cyprus and discovered a land where life continues as it has for centuries — with a focus on fabulous food, generous hospitality and a love of nature

The pristine, near - deserted Natai Beach faces the shimmering waters of the Andaman Sea and is backed by a tranquil rural landscape where buffalo roam and farmers tend their land.

Our Southwest Experience tour will take you through some of our peaceful rural towns and show you a wide range of scenery including the wheatbelt, coastal areas, rock formations such as Wave Rock and the Natural Bridge, magnificent karri forests, quiet pasture lands and wineries where you have the opportunity to try some of our fine Australian wine.

This villa in Ibiza is set in a rural beauty spot, surrounded by country houses, where land -LSB-...]

Born and raised in rural, central Illinois, Louis M Schmidt bounced around a lot as a young person before landing in Boulder, Colorado, where he stayed for ten years.

In built - up urban areas the concentration of heat storing materials in buildings, roads, etc. such as concrete, bitumen, bricks and so on, and heat sources such as heaters, air - conditioners, lighting, cars, etc. all combine to produce a local «heat island»: a region where temperatures tend to be warmer than the surrounding rural land.

In areas where infrastructure is poor and carbon stores are high, REDD may offer attractive economic returns relative to conventional logging and agricultural use of forest land, especially for rural communities, which are often bypassed by industrial development of rainforests.

Water quantity and quality issues are expected to exacerbate existing economic and social issues for the 65 Native American tribes in the Great Plains, where populations on rural tribal lands have limited capacities to respond to climate change.

With respect to the proposed legislation where I am in agreement with the naysayers is the failure to include or consider the carbon reduction possibilities available the rural industry, through; improved agricultural practices, encouraging on farm carbon storage via tree planting and carbon storage and the discourgement of large scale land clearing.

Even in Norwich where he works, population 136,000, UHI will be more than 1C, although we have little truly rural land in SE England, so I could be understating things.

The economic benefits would accrue across Minnesota, but rural communities would particularly gain because renewable energy facilities tend to be located in rural areas where land is available for utility - scale renewable energy development.

«Figure 1 contains information on four environmental characteristics (land use, pedestrian location, light condition, and time of day and season) where / when pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2013: ■ More occurred in urban areas (73 %) than rural areas (27 %).1 ■ More occurred at non-intersections (69 %) than at intersections (20 %) for pedestrian location (10 % was other locations such as parking lanes / zones, bicycle lanes, shoulders / roadsides, sidewalks, medians / crossing islands, driveway accesses, shareduse paths / trails, non-trafficway areas, and other).

This made some sense in a rural, agrarian society where landowners might own large tracts of land.