Sentence examples for ringed by forests from inspiring English sources

In Sitka, for instance, the onetime capital of Russian America that is ringed by forests, sea and a snow-covered volcano on a nearby island, the city split a few years ago (1,702 against, 1,068 for) when a nonbinding measure was put on the local ballot to make it the city's official policy to oppose clear-cutting in the nearby national forest.

The island is ringed by forests, with agricultural fields in its center.

Blackwell vowed to focus 75% of the thinning over the next five years around towns ringed by forest, giving local leaders a say in what gets cut first.

The five-star hotels around the ancient temples of Angkor are oases of green; sleek new buildings ringed by tropical forests and sprawling lawns.

A big hotel set in a sweeping meadow ringed by dense spruce forests, the Hubert had all kinds of diversions for children, from ponies to skittles to a heated indoor pool.

It's a near-mythical tropical lake, one of the largest in the world, ringed by volcanoes and forest.

It looks like a setting out of one of Grimms' fairy tales: a string of 18th-century houses set on an isthmus between two lakes ringed by beech and oak forest.

JTF-B is located on the Honduran Air Force's Soto Cano Air Base in the Comayagua Valley, a dry, flat expanse ringed by mountains and pine forest.

Behind the hill lies a thickly forested valley ringed by the blue outlines of distant mountains.

It's ringed by mountains, covered in thick pine forest, and accessible only by a steep footpath, a stretch of Turkey's great coastal trail, the Lycian Way.

DETAILS Tucked in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and ringed by the area's large national forest, the Waterville Valley Resort was founded in the mid-1960s by a group led by Tom Corcoran, a two-time Olympic skier.