Sentence examples for clearing acreage from inspiring English sources

They sounded like an industrious lot, clearing acreage and all, but that didn't seem particularly competitive.

August is the driest month in the Amazon River basin — the best time for subsistence farmers and owners of large tracts of land to clear acreage for agriculture by burning off forests that sequester carbon dioxide and replenish oxygen in our overcarbonized atmosphere.

"Koch" reveals its subject as a man who rarely cleared much acreage in his heart for the disenfranchised or suffering.

In "A Painting in Santa Fe," a well-meaning but patronizing Anglo couple befriend a Chicano workman, whose anger at them builds along with the pile of brush he is trying to clear from their acreage.

The clearing of vast acreages of land poses serious concerns for wildlife habitats as well as water usage issues.

OUTDOOR SPACE: Most of the acreage is cleared.

Farm population dropped, as did the acreage of cleared land in the state.

Within a couple years he cleared $2 billion more selling acreage to the likes of Chevron, and another $1 billion dealing his Marcellus pipeline network to Penn-Virginia in 2012.

"It's clear that a large amount of acreage that is currently under lease is not in production," David Alberswerth, a public lands expert for the Wilderness Society, said.

Language has also been added to make clear that the growth in almond acreage between 2002 and 2012 did not correspond with an increase in water use.

"It was very clear to me that the holders of acreage did not have enough capital to be able to develop the assets themselves," he said.