Sentence examples for thin soils from inspiring English sources

Environmentalists argue that steep slopes and thin soils here make building on hillsides too risky.

Wild blueberries and cranberries are found commonly on thin soils, especially in southwestern areas.

"The impact on this kind of land, with our slow growing season and thin soils, is essentially irreparable".

The Biu Plateau's thin soils, scarcity of water in the dry season, and relative inaccessibility have discouraged human settlement there.

We found a creeping rosemary, a sedum and lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis), all drought-tolerant and capable of coping in thin soils.

The first trees to lose their leaves are ones that grow in thin soils and are exposed to sun and wind.

Thin soil, patchy grazing, extreme wind and rain.

On this sun-baked, thin soil plants have to be tough to survive.

Erosion has stripped away the often thin soil cover and caused serious silting of streams.

The younger western slopes have a thin soil covering unlike the lush eastern slopes.

Even within zones of cultivation, the presence of steep slopes and thin soil further reduced the area of cultivation.