Reconfiguration of hillside fields into terraces is regarded as one of the key techniques for water and soil conservation in mountainous regions.
To improve reconfiguring of hillside fields into terraces, holistic techniques of soft-riser bench terrace engineering, including revegetation with trees and planting of grasses on terrace riser slopes, were tested between 1997 and 2001 in Xiabiabgou watershed, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, China.
The earlier works here - soft shapes abstracted from hillsides, field patterns, trees (and perhaps a biomorphic memory of bodies), and a kind of bleached-out light – feel like tentative false beginnings, or rather a kind of groping for a system of some sort that would sustain her.
The Woolsey fire started near Simi Valley in a hillside area next to the old Santa Susana Field Lab and quickly spread into nearby suburban communities.
Dotted across the hillsides, where fields of wheat blew in the wind, several villages lay in ruins.
At the bottom level, there are prospectors, who walk hillsides and fields, kicking rocks in search of minerals and metals.
The players practiced free kicks and scoring combinations while hundreds of fans, who gathered on the hillside overlooking the field, pounded drums, chanted and sang as if the match were already under way.
An unusual rustic, mountain cottage standing on its own on a hillside surrounded by fields.
Women don babushkas before going out; men hike up the hillside to work fields, owned now by a company they simply refer to as "The Firm".
She used binoculars to scan the valley--taking in the wide, shallow Skagit, a grassy field, hillsides of conifers and 33 more eagles.
