This article is the first step in that reclamation process.
After this, cropping is started as the last step in the reclamation process.
But "Jonas," the brothers' new Disney Channel sitcom, which begins Saturday, is a calculated, perhaps fearful step backward, a reclamation of innocence.
Construction of the dike and road between Lelystad and Enkhuizen across the IJsselmeer was completed in 1976 as the first step toward the reclamation of Markerwaard Polder to the east (a project later abandoned).
Over the last two years China has dramatically stepped up land reclamation work on reefs and atolls it claims in the Spratly Island chain in the South China Sea, also claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei.
Around the lake, Reclamation has taken steps to protect wildlife habitats, including those for bald eagles and Gila topminnows.
US defence secretary Ashton Carter yesterday demanded an "immediate and lasting halt" to the reclamation projects after stepping up surveillance flights and a naval presence around the new islands.
Some members of Mr. Abe's government had hoped to do this by formally asking the Okinawan governor for permission to begin land reclamation, a crucial step toward building the new base near the coastal village of Henoko.
The bog's virgin moss was cultivated and drainage channels cut through at regular intervals, the first step in the area's reclamation.
