IN the wooded heart of Staten Island lies a rugged spread of land, crowned by a rustic lake, that has provided camping grounds for Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from the New York area for 60 years.
Bird Cloud – or "Broke Bank House", as I'm sure Annie Proulx was not tempted to call it – is the story of how a great and ageing American writer came across a 640-acre spread of land in Wyoming, bought it and set about designing and building (more accurately, having people build) her ideal house on it.
Yet nearly half of the city's homes are single-family buildings; the population density is just over 2,300 per square kilometre, three times lower than in none-too-densely populated San Francisco.The spread of land-use regulation is not hard to understand.
They are also relevant to predicting the state of existing and planned buried infrastructure and the persistence of materials spread on land.
Cultural landscapes were prominent during the Early Roman period when agronomic knowledge allowed the spread of intensive land exploitation in most of the available land.
With the growth of market economies and the spread of democracy, land disputes and election fights flicker, then die down again.
"Around 30% of global biodiversity loss can be attributed to livestock production, such as the spread of pasture land or turning over forests and savannahs…to feed production".
After buying a 2,478-acre 2,478-acrerecreational land from Mr. Pickenspread year, Mr. Williams immediately went tofworecreationalvegetation in eight different pland fromroaMr.g turkey, hogs and deer to munch on.
ON a 189-acre spread of pastoral land where deer, foxes, pheasant, wild turkey, rabbits and groundhogs thrive under a hunting ban, the defunct state-owned Fairfield Hills Hospital sits forlornly.
Mr. Hoffmeister still does about 90percentt of the work on the farm, raising pigs, cows, corn and soy beans on a 400-acre spread of rolling land along a gravel road here in deepest Iowa, about 40 miles west of Waterloo.
The spread of arable land in semi-desert regions may change biodiversity in nearby uncultivated natural areas by increasing habitat loss and fragmentation and negatively affecting habitat specialists.
