The serpentinic sites are part of the Nature Conservancy's state line serpentine barren complex in Chester County, Pa, and Soldier's Delight Natural Environment Area, Baltimore County, Md. Granitic sites were located at the Lock 12 recreation area on the Susquehanna river (York County, Pa), and Lancaster County Park (Lancaster County, Pa).
Those top-down policies led to loss of vibrant neighborhoods characterized by small businesses, a mix of low-rise housing in a complex eco-system, bull-dozed into barren complexes of cement, and caused misery for millions of residents dispersed elsewhere.
The forested western Amazon was once thought barren of complex human culture.
Laboratory and field experiments have demonstrated that predation risk on small fish is reduced in habitats of greater structure compared to less complex or barren environs.
The lobby of the Hale Center, the Rutgers football complex, is barren except for an old clock in the back and an old trophy case showcasing the jerseys of past stars.
I was there in 1994 when I followed a group of 500 Bosnian refugees who were promised swimming pools, bungalows and jobs, and ended up essentially stranded for five years at the Haji Complex, a barren site in Rawalpindi for pilgrims on the way to Mecca.
The street, on the outskirts of Chinatown, opposite a towering apartment complex, was lonely and barren.
The northwestern fringe of the mainland is particularly barren, the rocks of the Lewisian Complex having been worn down by severe glaciation to produce a hummocky landscape, dotted by small lochs and rocks protruding from thin, acidic soil.
The passageways of his prized grotto, some 15 feet below the barren, paved courtyard of an aging laboratory complex, are human-made and lined floor to ceiling with shelves of papers.
It would leave behind the city's biggest office complex and an adjacent swath of barren land that was cleared of dozens of homes to make room for a hotel, stores and condominiums that were never built.
The project's anticipated tax revenue was slated to help the District finance $24 million worth of sewers and sidewalks nearby, infrastructure needed to serve 500 homes and revive several now-barren blocks once occupied by a public housing complex.
