Distance to paved and unpaved roads were strongly associated with deforestation, followed by distance to rivers, annual precipitation and elevation.
Most mountain bike handlebars are straight and can create discomfort if rode long distance on paved trails.
On the way back, sure enough, the Ford began to slew and wallow in a stretch of puddles a short distance from the paved road.
Decades back, this opium market was built at a discreet distance from any paved road -- a precaution largely unneeded during most of Afghanistan's freewheeling history.
Or, as an instructor recommended, use the buddy method: "Hey Buddy, pick up my bike?" With that basic lesson out of the way, we head to the training area, which the instructors have built a short distance from the paved tracks and skid pad where the classes for road riders and car drivers are conducted.
In addition of water quantity, land-structure characteristics (e.g., land slope, wheat crop) and neighborhood characteristics (e.g., distance from a paved road) had a significant effect on farmland prices.
Target villages were stratified by health clinic affiliation, average population size, and distance from the paved road and Bobo-Dioulasso, and assigned to the intervention cohort or the non-intervention cohort.
And on the long-distance trails, whether paved or unpaved, you can feel pampered, yes, but you also feel sequestered, shut off from conventional — "real" — avenues of transportation.
tigrinum tigrinum) was negatively associated with the cumulative length of paved roads within 1 km of the site, and presence of red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus v. viridescens) was negatively associated with the average linear distance to the five nearest wetlands.
The full length was paved in 1916.
