The newly purchased property includes 180 miles of rivers and streams; 175 lakes and ponds; 465 miles of undeveloped shoreline along rivers, streams, lakes and ponds; six mountains taller than 2,000 feet, and countless smaller hills.
In addition to creating the new posts, Globe says governments should draw up comprehensive sets of "natural capital accounts" that would place financial values on components of the natural world such as undeveloped land, woodland, rivers and marshes.
(Capacity for hydro in the lower 48 states is essentially tapped out, but there's a lot left undeveloped in Canadian rivers that already export a lot of power south of their border).
City officials are negotiating to buy the 42-acre Taylor Yard from the Union Pacific Railroad Co. because they see a chance to make this last undeveloped parcel on the river the starting point for an urban renaissance.
The horses are on the other side of the great river, in the undeveloped part of the delta.
In addition, coastal rivers draining largely undeveloped watersheds with extensive riparian wetlands can be a natural source of fecal pathogens to coastal waters (Viau et al. [2011]; Staley et al. [2014]; Roberts et al. [2013]; Liang et al. [2013]; Wilkes et al. [2014]).
Chiefly a pastoral river in a largely undeveloped area of New Jersey, the Paulins Kill has remained generally unaffected by industrial pollution.
Wilderness areas can be found in preserves, estates, farms, conservation preserves, ranches, national forests, national parks and even in urban areas along rivers, gulches or otherwise undeveloped areas.
With his 1996 book "Undaunted Courage," the historian and author Stephen Ambrose helped to draw attention to the Upper Missouri, virtually the only stretch of the more-than-2,000-mile-long more-than-2,000-mile-long more-than-2,000-mile-long more-than-2,000-mile-long more-than-2,000-mile-longClariverd thatr Corps of Discovery used thasMissouremainedeir main water route.
The once powerful argument about the Amur's strategic worth was shattered for good when the trans-Siberian railway was built, bypassing the river's mouth.And so, today, the undeveloped Amur is a glorious exception to other rivers.
