Sentence examples for land for resources from inspiring English sources

In 1887, local aboriginal tribes signed Treaty 7, which gave Canada rights to explore the land for resources.

"The federal lands package added to the National Defense Authorization Act is a backroom deal that would lock up use of hundreds of thousands of acres of land," said Ebell, although it is likely he would favor the part of the Rio Tinto deal that allows mining since he favors using federal land for resources.

She referred frequently to the need for balance between exploitation of federal lands for resource extraction and preservation of wilderness.

Pillaging the land for natural resources, pumping toxins into the atmosphere, destroying habitats -- a new video using satellite imagery from the last 30 years shows just how much these and other forces have altered the earth's surface.

Anticipating the potential effects of forestland development can be important to formulating management and policy strategies that balance the multiple demands of society regarding land for development, resource production, and environmental protection.

This is critical in the case of lands occupied by indigenous communities where the relationship between people and territory is long and more complex than a simple land occupation for resource management (cf., Marsden 1988, 1992).

At the same time there is increasing competition for land resources for different needs such as biofuel production.

Attending to ethnographic refusal in TLU studies inspires a more culturally appropriate methodology that asserts Indigenous sovereignty of lands identified for resource extraction in Canada and worldwide.

The defined rules and regulations are formulated through a process of stakeholder consultation and dialogue to address issues related to bushfire surveillance brigades, marking out livestock tracts, fixing periods for harvesting wild fruits or entering grazing lands, quotas for resource use, and protection of regenerating forest among others.

But, since the 1950's, organized financial interests have laid fierce claim to many remaining public and private lands for the resources within them such as timber, coal and forage for livestock.

These trends determine, for example, the demand for land resources.