Sentence examples for miles of logging from inspiring English sources

There are already more than 4,000 miles of logging roads snaking through the rain forest here, built as part of the nation's most heavily subsidized logging program, one that costs taxpayers about $30 million a year but is fiercely defended by Alaska's tiny but powerful Congressional delegation.

Miles of logging roads and rolling single-track mountain bike trails wend through wilderness on the sparsely populated tip of Michigan.

"There's 150,000 abandoned mine sites and tens of thousands of miles of logging road in Montana," said former Representative Pat Williams, who works at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West, a research organization.

A growing body of research shows that clear-cuts and thousands of miles of logging roads carved into the forests over the last century have greatly altered ecosystems, drying out large areas and leaving behind vast expanses of wood waste.

The E.P.A. has long taken the opposite view, and the ultimate answer to whether the Clean Water Act applies to hundreds of thousands of miles of logging roads is quite consequential, as it could provide a tool for conservationists to block logging where silty runoff would choke forest streams.

I knew that one day our son would leave for college, but that always seemed so far away --especially of afternoons of logging 40+ miles to music lessons, the orthodontist and sports.

Thousands of miles of old logging roads are crumbling, some of them spawning mudslides on mountain slopes that were stripped bare of their trees at the height of the industrial forestry era.

Take a 3-hour boat cruise, sign up for an early morning Moose (Photo) Safari, or, in winter, bring your snowmobile and ride on miles of groomed logging roads.

For some, it can be a badge of honor, proof of miles logged and the repetitive toe-banging they have endured.

The 1st water works system in N.Y. was begun in 1799, when Aaron Burr and his associates organized the Manhattan Water Company, and offered to bring water from Rye Ponds, but they did little except to dig a few wells and construct a reservoir in Chambers St., and install a few miles of bored logs.

But city staff and council members disagreed because the number of miles logged over the weekend--130--seemed out of the ordinary for a church visit.