(1) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
(2) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(3) The path runs through a wild and protected area of dunes, woodland and heathlands with views of the islands in the Gulf of Morbihan.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coastal heathland around the shack community of Temma on the west coast of Tasmania, which has been reduced to ash after a bushfire.
(5) Specific needs, such as pig-raising or bee-keeping, supported the formation of particular landscapes, e.g., sparsely wooded forests and extensive heathlands.
(6) * According to Wikipedia a chaparral is "a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico".
(7) The destruction or conversion of grasslands, heathlands and scrub to grow more crops – often using pesticides – has decimated many bird populations.
(8) Stonechats, warblers and linnets chatter from the heathland.
(9) It involves activities such as restoring heathland, burning brash – cuttings left over from wood management – digging ditches, path widening, coppicing, scrub clearance, fence removal and pond maintenance.
(10) Glover says the commission is not a guardian of our woods, having "for most of its existence ... gone about ripping up ancient forests and heathlands and covering them in industrial coniferous monoculture".
(11) Our rarer blues, the large, chalk hill, Adonis and silver-studded, use very specific habitats; heathland for the latter, southern downland for the first three.
(12) Goonhilly, a sparse heathland at Britain's most southerly point, could have been designed for satellite broadcasts by a benevolent god familiar with the nature of the radio wave.
(13) The rare heathland broad-headed bug was discovered by the trust's biological survey team on Dunkery Beacon in Exmoor, along with the scarce cow-wheat shieldbug.
(14) Chilworth to Guildford, Surrey This eight-mile walk crosses heathland dotted with pretty villages before dropping down to follow the Wey Navigation , where there are many swimming places.
(15) Photograph: Exmoor Tourism Partnership (ETP) The Quantock Hills are a sumptuous mix of woods and heathland, and the birthplace of Romantic poetry.
(16) In a sign of the opposition companies are likely to face from local communities and environmental groups, however, the Countryside Council for Wales warned that the land around the possible mid-Wales source of water for transfer from the Severn to the Thames was home to many protected species including important bog and heathland, and hen harriers, peregrine falcons and merlins.
Moorland
Definition:
(n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
(2) The Viking scheme, first unveiled in 2009, expects to exploit Shetland’s highly-exposed location and substantial winds coming off the north Atlantic, after it is built on about 50 square miles of moorland north of Lerwick on the island group’s main island.
(3) Even when we had 14 pairs here, the RSPB still wanted more, instead of dispelling the myth that the harrier could take gamekeepers’ livelihoods away.” Grouse moorland is “the best and the worst place for the hen harrier,” added Murphy.
(4) It would have involved 181 huge turbines each requiring concrete bases 20 ft deep, roads and cables, and would have destroyed a swathe of this rare peat moorland.
(5) During the summer there are regular guided rambles around the traditional Highland estate (a mix of farmed croft land, wood and moorland) and from Plockton to Kyle of Lochalsh, but it's worth keeping an eye out for special events and themed walks throughout the year.
(6) If driven grouse shooting, in which beaters are used to send more birds towards the guns, was banned, Mawle argued, the cost of keeping the moorlands in their attractive, wildlife-friendly state would have to be met by taxpayer.
(7) A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: "Earlier this morning local flood defences were breached and the water level in Moorland began rising.
(8) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(9) Since 2000, 20 gamekeepers have been found guilty of “raptor persecution” or poisoning offences on grouse moorland, including one who killed a hen harrier in Scotland.
(10) It’s impossibly bleak – a fortress surrounded by vast moorland.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Flooding in Northmoor Green (Moorland) in Somerset, UK, in February this year.
(12) The SDBC’s new plan includes “promoting and assisting the relocation of very flood vulnerable households out of the floodplain.” But, Stevens added: “The transition to something like that will be hugely painful and expensive.” Floods video 2 Flood waters overwhelm a junction in Moorland.
(13) The rest is mostly “rough grazing”, with 80% of the land defined as “permanent pasture moorland” – the kind of landscape enjoyed by Theresa May and her husband, Philip, on their regular visits to Snowdonia.
(14) It prompted a mini-reshuffle, with Home Office minister James Brokenshire promoted to Harper's position and Karen Bradley, Conservative MP for Staffordshire Moorlands, filling the former's position.
(15) The sheep in this almost feral flock have access to a small area of unmanaged moorland pasture but are otherwise restricted to the foreshore where they subsist largely on Laminaria spp.
(16) Ian Sample Environment Rural landscape of Farmland and peat moorland beyond, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, UK.
(17) Moorland owners, Anderson explained to me, wanted to be allowed to move hen harrier nests.
(18) This is the first time it’s ever got anywhere near the house.” Moorland video Resident Mark Kirby and volunteer flood relief organiser Tim Holmes describe the plight of Moorland and the disaster response.
(19) She took on the newly created job of representing moorland owners a year ago, convinced she could find a bridge between apparently conflicting interests.
(20) Samples of arthropodes taken from forests, moorland and waters showed a comparatively similar spectrum of species.