The valley drops away below in a mosaic of yellow grass and green pastureland, and in the distance the sun glints off the Pacific Ocean. |
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While cow herders set fires to produce new pastureland, hunters and cattle rustlers start fires to flush out game or to cover their tracks. |
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And the year after that, in the pastureland across the road, chain stores pop up like mushrooms among the cow pies. |
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The region is a bed of hot mineral springs, deep river gorges and rolling pastureland. |
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The cemetery grounds border pastureland, and visitors share the pastoral settings with horses, Texas longhorns and occasionally, wild deer. |
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He added that the field they are in is pastureland and as such is specially cultivated grass. |
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Landowners can offer eligible cropland and marginal pastureland in these watersheds. |
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A commons in medieval Britain consisted of pastureland that was shared in common by a number of the herdsmen of a village. |
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The only green that remained was the spreading, tired, dark foliage of the occasional live oak tree standing sentinel in sere pastureland. |
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Smooth-billed anis live in open fields and pastureland, usually near water. |
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The high pastureland was lush with grass, sere now after the summer's heat. |
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In the spring sunshine its emerald green pastureland, sleek cattle and well-ordered fields were looking their best. |
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The villagers also agreed to devote one day every week towards voluntary work to help develop the pastureland. |
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This project seeks to increase livestock production by protecting and rehabilitating the pastureland in southern Mauritania. |
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The natural disaster drowned out hay and pastureland, leaving producers without feed for their livestock and severely damaged forage crops. |
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The section of Line 100-3 in which the rupture occurred had been installed in 1969 in a low-lying alkaline area surrounded by pastureland. |
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Their united effort preserved pastureland, reversed deforestation and increased their living standards. |
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We were based near Parthenay, in an area noted for its rolling pastureland, reclaimed marshes, and a pretty breed of red beef cattle, the Parthenaise. |
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Are young Americans ready to move off the competitive playing field and onto the herbivore pastureland? |
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We had to make contracts with the Chinese because they administrate the country, and we had to make contracts with the Mongolians because it is their pastureland. |
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Cattle breeding has also been affected by the loss of pastureland and the damage caused to the water supply. |
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Good pastureland also meant an increase in herds of cattle for meat and dairy production, and sheep for meat and wool. |
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Most of the rest has been destroyed by slash and burn agriculture, the creation of pastureland, and by collecting fuel wood. |
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We left the green and its old houses and found ourselves on a flat plateau of pastureland with sheep, seagulls, fieldfares and long views over Bilsdale to the east. |
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These populations are morphologically distinct from the more typical ruderal form which often occurs in close proximity in surrounding pastureland. |
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It is hard to imagine that animals used to graze on this pastureland, which must have reminded James Logan of his native country. |
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The working group on agriculture addressed a wide range of activities, including farming, stockbreeding pastureland and forestation. |
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How intensive can use of pastureland or forestation be if we are to preserve the pastured woodlands? |
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Land application of uncertified biosolids is forbidden on fruits, vegetables and pastureland. |
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By 1890, fenced pastureland had virtually replaced the open range in the western United States. |
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Most of the fields are pastureland, although some families have apple and pear orchards. |
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This can mainly be attributed to a lack of pastureland and many animal-related weaknesses related to factors such as diet and breed genetics. |
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And then came the structural change in agriculture. It has meant that the wood is able to spread: where there are no cattle, the pastureland is disappearing too. |
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It causes such a problem of invading pastureland that at one time the British government had an eradication programme. |
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This year, more than 75,000 people camped on hundreds of acres of pastureland and battled deep mud and intense heat to enjoy music ranging from the Beastie Boys to up-and-comers such as the American Princes. |
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On the other hand, producers in those regions are known for their quality agricultural products and for their experience in the sustainable exploitation of forest and pastureland. |
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The climate, orography and geology give this region its own special characteristics which have a direct influence on the type and quality of pastureland. |
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Animal herders in West and Central Africa, for instance, must deal with a number of ecological and social changes, such as the sale of pastureland to farmers. |
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They also adopted a series of compensatory measures designed to extend the mudflats plus an original experiment to restore the pastureland by introducing horses from the Camargue in the reed beds. |
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Admittedly, we must not overlook a total of 3,460 million hectares of pastureland, but their unitary production is very low and unlikely to increase due to recurrent over-pasturage. |
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The local people used the pastureland for raising cattle. |
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Massive deforestation and over-grazing of pastureland have resulted in increasing shortages of land for cultivation and wood for fuel and construction. |
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The conflict between pastoralists and agriculturalists is long-standing, but it has been more acute in recent years, in particular because of the lack of pastureland and the steady degradation of the soil. |
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It's quite far from the river, and some fields are cultivated and others are pastureland, but your main income derives from trading services with the neighbouring villages. |
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Cropland, rangeland, grassland, pastureland and nonindustrial private forestland are all eligible land uses. |
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In use since antiquity, these methods are recorded in a wealth of official documents such as donations, agreements, legal proceedings and decrees on pastureland. |
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Fire was a method of revitalizing pastureland and preventing forest regrowth. |
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This is resulting in increased tensions between Fulani herders and Hausa cultivators over encroachment of fields on pastureland, encroachment of herds on planted fields, and over-burdening of water points. |
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The construction of the approach roads and toll plaza resulted in the permanent loss of some wet pastureland. |
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The European badger is found in deciduous and mixed woodlands, clearings, spinneys, pastureland and scrub, including Mediterranean maquis shrubland. |
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A shift in structure from bare tidal flat to pastureland resulted from increased sedimentation and the cordgrass extended out into other estuaries around New Zealand. |
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