Sentence examples for cleared for settlement from inspiring English sources

Forests had been cleared for settlement and agriculture at an estimated rate of 104,000 acres annually between 1956 and 1981.

In 1681 the Quaker leader of the English colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn, ordered that one acre of forest be preserved for every five acres cleared for settlement, and in the following century Benjamin Franklin led various campaigns to curtail the dumping of waste.

South and North Nandi forest (29,398 ha) have been heavily logged and substantial areas cleared for settlement.

The novel as a whole, however, describes in great detail the way the forests of North America are cut for timber and cleared for settlements.

In the Central Highlands town of Buôn Ma Thuột, the local sawmill was inundated with lumber to build houses and much of the surrounding forest was cleared for settlements.

The best landscape predictor of the magnitude of tri-colored activity was non-forested land area within commuting distance of survey sites, suggesting that tri-colored bats were less active in landscapes where forests are cleared for agriculture, settlements and timber production.

The town was proclaimed in 1869, its name coming from an Aboriginal word for honeysuckle; the land was cleared for agriculture, and settlement began shortly thereafter.

East of the Mississippi, about 1percentt survives in ever smaller and more isolated pockets as woodland that has not been cleared for agriculture and settlement, or simply harvested for its wood.

When the pre-historical people of the Taosi Culture occupied the loess tableland and cleared land for settlement and arable cultivation between 4400 and 3900 a B.P., a global event of rapid climatic change (4200 3800 a B.P). hit the area.

The natural vegetation of deciduous forest and steppe has been almost wholly cleared for agriculture since intensive settlement began in the 17th century and now survives only as occasional oak groves along the rivers.

The way is now cleared for a trial or a settlement by New York, as has been the result in several other states that have faced such challenges.