Sentence examples for mountainside vegetation from inspiring English sources
The garden has excellent collections of palms, cacti, aroids, bromeliads, pandanuses, and other groups of tropical plants of considerable botanical interest; also important is a large, untouched tract of the original mountainside vegetation.
In the timbered belt on the mountainsides the vegetation is coniferous forest dominated by Douglas fir.
The disaster was the latest in a rising number of flash floods around Indonesia and elsewhere, where uncontrolled logging has stripped mountainsides of the vegetation that holds rainfall and the earth itself.
Using the spread of moraines – the debris left by glaciers and the trimlines on mountainsides where the vegetation starts (effectively the high-tide mark of glaciers), a team led by Professor Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University was able to compile a complicated series of calculations to work out the volume of ice that has disappeared.
It is astonishing, in the 21st century, that people are still allowed to burn mountainsides – destroying their vegetation, roasting their wildlife, vaporising their carbon, creating a telluric eczema of sepia and grey blotches – for any purpose, let alone blasting highland chickens out of the air.
A little farther, thick columns of smoke poured from vegetation on a steep mountainside and spiraled into the sky.
Part of the program documents the return of vegetation and animal life to the mountainside in the years since.
The land he's in the process of buying is a rugged mountainside, with the ruins of a few old stone farm buildings mostly reclaimed by vegetation.
BILL GOTTDENKER Mountainside, N.J.
