Sentence examples for eroded land from inspiring English sources

While many have been well managed, some have triggered uncontrolled water runoff, flooded pastures, eroded land and pumped large amounts of salty water into streams and creeks.

Flooding has always been part of the annual cycle of life, but the past 40 years have seen 12 abnormally large floods that have eroded land and wiped out crops and buildings.

And yet the very act of writing has become my way of finding a space and of building a home for myself, my way of taking a shapeless, marshy world and firming it up with paper, the way the Venetians firm up eroded land by driving wooden piles into it.

The Department of Transportation thinks dredging for sand may have eroded land at the edge of a pond.

However, the results presented here have shown that there is a cost to the land owner/manager for growing trees on formerly eroded land because of resultant smaller log volumes.

Further to the west, the James River Basin is mostly low, flat, highly eroded land, following the flow of the James River through South Dakota from north to south.

Looking around him today, seeing the dirtied and dangerous rivers and streams, enormous lakes polluted beyond imagina tion, eroded lands, sooty clouds camped above cities, he is sure more than ever that separation from the white man's civiliza tion is the only way.

Results of investigations on the efficiency of vegetation and bioengineering works for gully erosion control are currently applied elsewhere to rehabilitate eroded lands.

The adverse effects of grazing pointed out by earlier studies can be summarized as overgrazed pastures, eroded lands and proliferating weeds (Casimir and Rao 1985; Shah 1988; Rawat and Uniyal 1993).

The nearby Dhanshiri River has become more unruly, eroding land and livelihoods.

We have a matrilineal culture so when the sea erodes land, women lose their inheritance, their children's futures and cultures and traditions, because everything we do is about land.