Sentence examples for timber and mining from inspiring English sources

Native claims on timber and mining land have held back investment.

Environmentalists, to their surprise, found that timber and mining were easier on the countryside.

The city's institutions financed much of the development of the western United States, including ranching, railroads, timber, and mining, and thereby laid the basis for its fortune.

Both the Manzar Khel and the Mada Khel tribes possessed timber and mining claims on the mountain, and needed a decision over who owned what.

They think them duped by timber and mining corporations – "proletarian obstacles to the great mission of conserving what little is left of American wilderness".

The rule, adopted in 1998, has given home builders, timber and mining companies and other developers some immunity against unforeseen twists in providing protection for species.

Prison labor was employed to dig canals, cut timber, and mine coal.

More than half the land would be leased for farming, timbering and mining.

That forest is now eyed hungrily by foreign timbering and mining interests.

Nonetheless, ongoing agricultural expansion, timber extraction, and mining continue to jeopardize important forest resources.

In a move that environmentalists said was intended to aid timber, oil and mining companies, the Interior Department removed thousands of acres of public lands from the protected category.