Settlement of Texas and Oklahoma, ranching and railway development in the 1890s and early 1900s (Oklahoma 2005), may have caused the first fragmentation of the black-capped vireo habitat, with continuing massive-scale land conversion because of agriculture and urbanization, changing the natural landscape over much of central Texas (Schmidly and Sansom 2002).
Even so, the fear for one's own security has been detonated on a massive scale, not just by the movements of land and sea, but also by the invisible threat of radioactivity, its ultimate consequences still uncertain.
Holding dear to this notion, it is easy to suppose that the Germans have not reclaimed land from water on a massive scale like the Dutch, pitched cities in swamp like Venice and St Petersburg or reversed the course of rivers like Stalin.
China, he said, was challenging freedom of navigation in the South China Sea by reclaiming land on disputed reefs on a "massive scale".
Cons: Still industrialised farming on a massive scale.
"Land and houses are currently being restituted on a massive scale to either former owners or people who acquired property deeds, in a more or less legal fashion", notes Szreder on Warsaw.
With the GCR complete it was no longer necessary for the MR to keep these lands clear for potential railway use, and Selbie began development on a massive scale.
We need all at massive scale, and we need to choose them carefully and with an eye to high efficiency to minimize land use.
"This is destruction on a massive scale.
But it's such a massive scale.
"That was serendipity on a massive scale.
