It is penetrated by timber-company roads, the occasional settlement, and hunting camps built flimsily on plots with short leases.
It was not, however, until the 19th century that the land began to play a role other than the goal of pilgrimage or of occasional settlement by pietists and mystics.
One to three small pieces of the crustose coralline alga (CCA) Hydrolithon sp. were placed on the glass slides to facilitate larval settlement because only occasional settlement was observed in preliminary experiments without CCA added to the petri dishes.
Or maybe it was the purity of fishing in a place where the only trace of human settlement is the occasional square white farmhouse holding forth like the last of a set of very old teeth.
Palestinians fought back, first with stones and slingshots, then with guns, shooting randomly at nearby Jewish settlements and staging the occasional ambush on the tanks that now patrol Ramallah's streets.Worse will almost certainly come.
Mechanisms, such as recruitment of maternal lineages from host populations, including their occasional historic long-distance transfer to new settlements, have been likely operative.
For months, Fundafaci helicopters flew in and out of some of the most pristine Yanomami settlements, ferrying researchers, television crews and the occasional wealthy tourist — as well as, inevitably, their germs.
The natural vegetation of deciduous forest and steppe has been almost wholly cleared for agriculture since intensive settlement began in the 17th century and now survives only as occasional oak groves along the rivers.
To be honest, the honest broker has really meant an occasional finger wagging at Israel when it gets a little too aggressive with its settlement expansion.
Our excursion yielded many delights: the lush forests, the occasional views, the wildlife (squirrels, eagles, a nocturnal wild boar), the remote, tumbledown settlements, and the friendly keepers of the region's various hostels.
While employed as a community activist and youth counselor at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, he lent his natural flair for performing to the occasional street theater production among friends like the poet and playwright Miguel Piñero.
