"They are abusing the land, abusing the Indian people and paying them nothing for their work," said Alvin Covey, a tribal member who worked at the farm for six months this year until July.
They have photographed deforestation and land abuse, pollution, overdevelopment, oil spills, dying coral, military damage, nuclear threats: all the ills that beset the planet except perhaps the hole in the ozone layer.
Thousands of images of pollution, strip mining, crowded cities, and land abuse could well be photographs taken in recent times.
Arthur exuded a moral authority and wearing a jumpsuit, he reminding me of the Lone Ranger, a hero leading the fight against land abuse through nurturing healthy soils... then I noticed his boots: substantial support, waterproof leather sealed in perfect rubber soles, the ultimate for working long hours in the year-round rain.
This kind of news just makes me sick -- especially since these are the guys who have scarred WV's land and abused her people.
Despised by the aunt in whose care she has landed and abused by her cousins and the servants, Jane (played as a child by Amelia Clarkson) nonetheless manages to cultivate her innate decency and bolster it with self-reliance.
Five years following the Kelo ruling, 44 development projects involving the condemnation of privately owned land and private parties participating in the "re-purposing" of that land were rejected by citizen activists, 43 states enacted stronger laws to protect private land owners against "eminent domain abuse," and nine state high courts limited the use of eminent domain for private development.
The Dust Bowl was the product of reckless, market-driven farming that had so abused the land that, when dry weather came, the wind lifted up millions of acres of topsoil and whipped it around in "black blizzards," which blew as far east as New York.
God gave us nature, and we Haitians, and our governments, abused the land.
"The authority given land managers is being abused," Mr. Baucus said.
In the elevator, he pointed a gun at a 15-year-old girl and led her to a rooftop landing, where he sexually abused her and stole $9 from her purse, the police said.
