Sentence examples for preservation area from inspiring English sources
This summer, Governor McGreevey pushed legislation that created a 395,000-acre preservation area to protect about half of the state's drinking water in the Highlands.
Whether it was discussions of the new Highlands preservation area or hearings on diesel fuel emissions, he said, daily business bowed to political reality.
The site is in a natural preservation area, so the color had to be toned down from the bright red that Mr. Kapoor favored to a subtler purple.
Much of the rest might then be declared untouchable.In practice, policing such a huge preservation area against illegal logging would be an immense task.
If the local council has its way, the spotless beach at the hamlet of Anderby Creek, a protected preservation area, could soon be home to a giant wind power station, much to the locals' dismay.
Eileen Swan, executive director of the Highlands Council, said that many municipalities have land in both areas and that the council plans to use consultation and financial incentives to see that local zoning plans adhere to the preservation area standard.
Fibria's private natural heritage reserves (RPPN) and other preservation areas also play important roles.
Landscape ecologists also realize the significance of maintaining smaller patches like Edgewood Park because they link larger preservation areas together.
Other areas set aside for further consideration include whether the state should directly link groundwater and surface water regulations, and whether regulators should expand preservation areas in which no additional pollution is allowed.
The plan overcomes the inequity such a system would normally impose on landowners in preservation areas by giving them a credit for each house they were entitled to build under the existing zoning.
Last month, legislators in both houses passed a set of revisions to the Forest Code that threatened permanent preservation areas – a key provision in Brazilian environmental legislation – that obliged farmers to keep a proportion of their land as protected forests, particularly on the fringes of rivers and hillsides.
