The nine-storey building was constructed on marshland and the access road was narrow. |
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The stalky marshland plants huddle in dense bunches on uncultivated areas bordering South Florida's sugar farms. |
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From the 5th to the 12th centuries, agricultural land was created by forest clearance, or was reclaimed from marshland and the sea. |
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The adjacent flood plain was left high and dry, depriving the inhabitants of the catfish and other marshland staples of their diet. |
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My Essex is coastal, a mixture of marshland and arable on the gentlest of river valleys. |
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The Kushiro National Park, a beautiful 27,000 hectare marshland area with a well laid out observatory, was next on our itinerary. |
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Bitterns are one of the UK's rarest birds, with only 30 breeding pairs left as marshland habitats dry out. |
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In seeking to set aside actual swamp and marshland, local advocates found that while wetlands abounded, they were highly altered by human action. |
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New Orleans is a city built on silt and drained marshland, positioned at the mouth of the Mississippi River. |
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But if the commercialism gets too much to cope with, get back to nature on an airboat ride through alligator-infested marshland. |
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Ultimately, how much of the marshland do you think will be rejuvenated or restored? |
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Many houses along the marshland do not have window screens and have large gaps in the floor and ceiling. |
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Roads penetrate deeper and deeper into what were once pampas, dense forests and marshland. |
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The rest is designated as prairie and marshland, winding throughout the development and sometimes right up to back porches. |
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The wetland park, which will soon be the animal's permanent home, will cover 64 hectares of land and include tropical marshland. |
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The bayous and marshland of southern Louisiana host one of the largest agglomerations of industry in North America. |
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The fenlands of eastern England were originally marshland, but have been turned into rich farmland by efficient drainage. |
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The marshland areas were areas that dissidents could go and hide in, deserters from the army could go and hide in. |
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The surrounding countryside is extremely varied, ranging from the Armorican Massif and the Poitevin marshland. |
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The surrounding area is relatively flat and marshland can be found around the airport. |
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Its widespread marshland represents an ideal habitat for numerous species of waterbirds. |
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This oasis of marshland is the home of many interesting plants, including pink and pale purple garlic, bog asphodels, irises, reeds and waterlilies. |
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However, instead of building the fort on a hill, the impassable wetlands were used to create an impregnable site, the biggest marshland in England. |
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And under the benign gaze of such governments, the poor have filled up marshland, resurfaced uneven land, all with their own labour, and built their homes. |
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Common Planigales inhabit rainforest, eucalypt forest, heathland, marshland, grassland and rocky areas where there is surface cover, and usually close to water. |
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A series of dykes now regulate the amount of water that enters the Everglades National Park, drying up large tracts of marshland. |
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Dogs of this highly adaptable breed are able to hunt many different types of game in open country or marshland. |
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The area devoted to energy use is very small compared to the areas of marshland used in forestry and agriculture. |
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This is what the theory of peat growth is based upon: marshland grows where there is more peat growing than decomposing. |
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Once completed, the redeveloped ditches and marshland will provide high-quality habitats for turtles, fish growth and bird nesting. |
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This, he said, is backed up by remnants of nibbled grass in the mound, which he thinks shows livestock were brought to graze on land that was once boggy marshland. |
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However, the years of silt coming in have taken its toll on the lake, which is becoming a marshland. |
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Several lighter objects from the helicopter were found in the marshland near the river edge. |
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Driving through a land which has been intensively farmed since the dawn of civilisation, we soon reached the Ghab, a rich agricultural valley which had once been marshland. |
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Soil conservation measures will be implemented and 2,300 ha of marshland will be drained for cultivation. |
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Acadian farms, dependent on dikes and the development of marshland, were self-contained and achieved high levels of production of cereals and apples, and then of livestock. |
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She also enjoys the region's marshland landscapes, which she finds very relaxing. |
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Nests typically among vegetation, often under a tree or bush, or on a tussock in marshland. |
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Nest: Carefully made of dried grasses, moss and lichen, on a rock ledge, between stones on rocky ground, or on a tussock in marshland. |
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There was a cluster of field names suggesting the presence of marshland and heath. |
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On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water. |
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Reclamation of land for agriculture by converting marshland to upland was historically a common practice. |
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The conversion of marshland to upland for agriculture has in the past century been overshadowed by conversion for urban development. |
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Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland. |
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The acceleration of water flow in the canal is projected to drain water out of the Delta, drastically reducing its water level, intensifying evaporation and wreaking havoc within the marshland habitat. |
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As the jewel in the crown of the Lithuanian ecosystem, the stork enjoys the marshland and the 3000 lakes and 700 waterways of this Baltic Republic. |
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As a versatile hunting dog, German Wirehaired Pointers have all the qualities needed to work on the flat, or in woodland and marshland, anticipating or responding to the gunshot. |
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The program ensures maintenance of the marshland protection systems in Westmorland and Albert Counties to prevent the tidal flooding of farmland, public roads, utilities and buildings located below sea level. |
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Particularly inhospitable areas, such as Oakwood beach on Staten Island, will return to marshland. The city has updated its building codes and passed 16 new laws to improve residential and commercial building resiliency. |
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Shia groups also have a toe-hold in the vast southern marshland. |
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Water quality and marshland management is an urgent priority to protect human health and livelihood and to preserve biodiversity and the ecosystems. |
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I don't know what the effect of it is, but probably one of the most vast areas of marshland and wetland of the Fraser Delta is in the south Fraser area. |
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Participants make their way through the labyrinth using a paper guidebook to which they refer for the marshland plant life and wildlife illustrations that will help them complete their chosen adventure. |
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During the spring migration, the marshland on either side of the bridge there receives an influx of more than one hundred migratory birds per kilometre of shoreline. |
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In addition, the return of displaced persons to the marshland area continues to place an increasing burden on the provision of drinking water and sanitation. |
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When the Petitcodiac gates are open permanently, we anticipate that we will need to control an equal amount of marshland above the present Lake Petitcodiac shoreline. |
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We must respect the habitat of these species in our marshland. |
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The southwest border region with ORANGE is primarily wet marshland. |
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It is a region of steep, rocky slopes, somber marshland and never-ending forests. The region is wild in its prehistoric preservation yet has been settled by people for ages. |
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We speculate the fish was a mosquitofish, based on the type of marshland habitat. |
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Alfred's emergence from his marshland stronghold was part of a carefully planned offensive that entailed raising the fyrds of three shires. |
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It was built on former marshland and mudflats that were drained in the 16th century. |
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Ruggles asserts that the site, on marshland, was chosen because a preferred site several miles to the west could not be obtained. |
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Areas in the south and east of the city tend to be flat and fertile with some housing estates and industrial areas reclaimed from marshland. |
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In 1893, Chicago hosted the World's Columbian Exposition on former marshland at the present location of Jackson Park. |
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However most of the land was as yet to be developed, and open grass and marshland still dominated the area. |
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The centre is slightly lower, an area of upland grazing and marshland known as Skiddaw Forest. |
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The soil is broadly sandy, but there is considerable marshland to the south and east, by the river. |
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There were originally two villages, East and West Teignmouth, separated by a stream called the Tame, which emptied into the Teign through marshland by the current fish quay. |
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Artificial preservation prevented the lake from evolving into a marshland. |
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The battle began on 23 June as the English army attempted to force its way across the high ground of the Bannock Burn, which was surrounded by marshland. |
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Despite some engineering work in the form of sea barriers constructed by the Roman Empire, much of East Anglia remained marshland and bogs until the 17th century. |
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Some of these were formerly islands surrounded by marshland. |
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Youngsters from Coundon Court and Community College Choir will imitate birds living in moor and marshland, such as snipe, curlew, golden plover and bittern. |
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