Sentence examples for settlements and timber from inspiring English sources

The best landscape predictor of the magnitude of tri-colored activity was non-forested land area within commuting distance of survey sites, suggesting that tri-colored bats were less active in landscapes where forests are cleared for agriculture, settlements and timber production.

Forest fire as a hazard is usually evaluated in terms of loss of life, property damage (burning of buildings or complete (settlements), and the loss in timber.

Marsden chronicled the economic history of the Canadian timber industry in such books as The Trade in Square Timber (1932), Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada (1936), and The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest (1938) and later, in Colony to Nation: A History of Canada (1946), attempted to establish a nationalistic pride to unite French and English Canadians.

Traditional spread footings, which dated back to the Egyptians, proved to be inadequate to resist settlement due to the heavy loads of the many floors, and timber piles (a Roman invention) were driven down to bedrock.

The first of these was contractor John Howie's settlement (1922 30), consisting of 25 timber cottages for his married men and timber barracks (Hostel Camp) for his single men.

Tureen and Jankel along with Donald Perkins, a lawyer for the paper and timber companies negotiated a solution whereby $30 million of the settlement funds would come from various programs in the federal budget.

They are usually found close to settlements (whose timber frames are much less well-preserved) and may have been for storing perishable agricultural products.

Most of Sri Lanka's climax vegetation cover has been heavily depleted by extensive clearing of forests for settlements, extraction of timber, and agriculture.

Copra and timber are exported.

Important exports are bananas and timber.

Major exports include textiles and timber.