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.
Rood, when contacted by phone, said that the dismantling of the Antiquities Section "was a culmination of things that have been happening since Range Creek," alluding to his office's sparring with other state agencies over the preservation of a nearly pristine, 1000-year-old 1000-year-old 1000-year-old02 in central Utah.
"I did pretty good," said Willard Laird, lifting his day's catch of soft-shell crabs onto this pristine Colonial island, the historical settlement of some of America's original watermen.
"But under our settlement, it will stay virtually pristine and he can't use it for agricultural purposes, building a house or even cutting down trees, beyond what is necessary to protect it from fire," Mr. Cantor said.
Analysis of habitat-specific virus diversity and ancestral state reconstruction demonstrated an origin of CAVV in a pristine rainforest with subsequent spread into agriculture and human settlements [ 7].
Our study design combined systematic mosquito sampling in different habitat types, including pristine rainforest, forest border zones, agricultural crop land, and human settlements, with screening for viral infections followed by specific testing of mosquitoes from all habitats for any of the isolated viruses.
He focusses his account on Mesopotamia — roughly speaking, modern-day Iraq — because it is "the heartland of the first 'pristine' states in the world," the term "pristine" here meaning that these states bore no watermark from earlier settlements and were the first time any such social organizations had existed.
The donation was approved at a meeting of the Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council, a private foundation that was established in 2004 as part of a Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) bankruptcy settlement to ensure that over 140,000 acres of California's pristine watershed lands are conserved for the public good and to serve California's young people.
Our data for five virus isolates from widely differing taxonomic groups are consistent with the notion that disturbed habitats, and especially human settlements, seem to support proliferation of endemic viruses more efficiently than the pristine primary forest.
