The Boulder Mountain Fire Protection District sent out a message warning trapped residents that rescuers were having difficulty reaching them.
The IAEA team is likely to visit an underground enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran, which is carved into a mountain as protection from possible airstrikes.
In today's suit, however, the ACLU claims that such searches violate the California Constitution, which appends a small mountain of protections onto its bigger, badder, federal brother.
For centuries, village communes have relied on forests on the mountain slopes for protection from these slides, because a 20- to 30-year-old forest can inhibit or stop small avalanches.
While the eastern end of the bridge levels off at the gravel plain, the western end abuts directly to the rising rock wall of the mountain, presumably for protection against floods.
We've reached a new landmark in the central Appalachian coalfields of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and southwest Virginia: Over 500 mountains in one of the most diverse forests in the Americas--the same kind of mountains that garner protection and preservation status in a blink of an eye in other regions---have now been eliminated from our American maps.
On the spot, she performed a corn pollen ritual (which she did not want me to describe in detail), asking the bear for permission for her and her sheep to be in the mountains, and for protection from harm.
The open-air theater -- two intersecting arcs poised on a mesa like an abstracted butterfly -- provides panoramic views of the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains and offers protection from the occasional summer rain (though with New Mexico in the fifth year of a severe drought and Santa Fe restricting water use, the rain is never unwelcome).
In California, mountain lions have special protection.
Glenn Spencer, founder of American Border Patrol, based in Sierra Vista, 19 miles north of the Mexican border, said his associates carried weapons during their patrols only for protection against mountain lions.
