Sentence examples for vast timber from inspiring English sources

The economic importance of the kray is threefold: its vast timber resources, which are exploited chiefly along the Trans-Siberian Railroad; its mineral wealth; and its hydroelectric potential.

PAGE A12 Vast Timber Sale Approved The Bush administration approved a sweeping sale of trees charred by forest fires, prompting a lawsuit by opponents of the plan.

Economically, Indonesia is potentially the wealthiest nation in South-East Asia, for its natural resources surpass those of Japan, Korea, Taiwan or India: it is one of the ten largest oil-producing countries; it ranks first in the exportation of liquified natural gas (most of which goes to Japan) and it has vast timber forests, gold, rubber, tin & coffee.

Two more holiday homes open next year: the first, a medieval hall-type structure with a vast timber roof in Cockthorpe, Norfolk, designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins; the second, a monastic retreat in concrete near Salcombe, south Devon, by Peter Zumthor.

Similarly, in Douglas County, a vast timber, farming and fishing area in southwestern Oregon, Lt. Mike Nores of the sheriff's department estimates that 12percentto14percentcent of the 103,000 residents are making, selling or using drugs, particularly methamphetamine and marijuana.

A lighting from a stomach-heaving helicopter tour in the famously stormy Pacific Northwest, a wobbly Weyerhaeuser Co. flack admits it was the bumpiest of his many flights over the company's vast timber operations.

As I jumped off the abra on the Deira side, I could see hundreds of these wooden ships tied three and four deep along the creek, all hand-built from vast tropical timbers on the beaches of Gujarat and Sind.

As vast mineral and timber concessions were handed to British and American companies, the global superpowers raised not a squeak of protest.

The Army base and the town behind it were a disaster-scape of mud-smeared, ruined concrete buildings, uprooted trees, overturned cars, beached boats, sheared-off roofs, and vast jumbles of timber, rubbish, and rubble.

There is some agriculture, but the region's vast resources of timber, iron ore, and waterpower have made forestry, mining, and the production of hydroelectric power of prime importance.

Early in the second half of the 19th century, the plain was drained by canals, and a vast pine forest was planted that provided timber and turpentine.