Sentence examples for farm settlers from inspiring English sources

Most of the island's original vegetation was removed through centuries of agricultural exploitation, particularly during the first two decades of the 20th century, when farm settlers and plantation workers destroyed large tracts of coastal forest and used the lumber for railroad ties and fuel.

In Orange Farm, settlers could own their own land and were soon joined by homeless people from the industrial towns of Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark.

It joined the union in 1846, and was populated with farming settlers from both Northern and Southern states.

The context between the onset of sedimentation and the start of pastoral farming by settlers after AD 400, which has been archaeologically verified, supports the hypothesis that the first sedimentation phase was set off or favoured by the degradation of the natural vegetation cover as a result of livestock farming.

Once used as a grazing spot by nomadic Aboriginals, the terrace was farmed by settlers until it was developed into a town.

My great-uncle's human flock had taken up the plow and farmed among Norwegian settlers.

This network of shallow canals, where early settlers farmed on artificial islands, is a remnant of the lake that once covered part of the valley where Mexico City rests.

The land, cleared for farming by early settlers, was then abandoned and allowed to become a second-growth forest in the 19th century.

Tells about the hisory: Indians used the area for hunting & fishing; the explorer Samuel de Champlain was in 1609 the first white man in the area; settlers farmed, cut timber, mined, & later went into the tourist business.

The Virgin and Idle Lands program launched in 1953 opened up the vast grasslands of northern Kazakhstan to wheat farming by Slavic settlers, a program that, over the course of several decades, led to an ecological disaster (see Aral Sea).

Dry conditions, the country's crippling shortage of cash, and the continuing occupation of white-owned farms by black settlers have created a serious shortage of food in the country.