Sentence examples for set aside lands from inspiring English sources

And we should not forget that Dwight Eisenhower set aside lands on the North Slope of Alaska, protecting one of the last great caribou herds on earth.

It was created to set aside lands in perpetuity for their inherent natural and scenic value, to preserve them for public use and to protect them from private development.

After Theodore Roosevelt became the organization's honorary president, the society began petitioning Congress to set aside lands in the West, where the bison could be resettled in their ancestral habitat.

We can then set aside land for tigers.

Rio is asserting that the economic benefit outweighs the environmental impact and is offering to set aside land elsewhere.

And I like the policies that will encourage farmers to put, set aside land as well for conservation purposes.

In 1890 largely through the efforts of naturalist John Muir and writer and magazine editor Robert Underwood Johnson the U.S. Congress set aside land around the state park as Yosemite National Park.

Many presidents, including Mr. Clinton and the second Mr. Bush, wait until late in their terms to use executive powers to set aside land for preservation.

In just a few years, it has built a breathtaking new skyline and set aside land for a large green space called Central Park.

As industrialized cities grew in density, some leaders set aside land, often at the edge of town, as pleasure grounds intended as a public-health benefit.

"Communities set aside land for wildlife because it's financially in their interests," says Butcher. "But in the absence of tourists, poachers give the incentives".