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Terraced hillsides-- Terracing techniques have been used for centuries in mountainous areas.

Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.

I cannot find anywhere though: how will the Karst topography along hillsides of the Appalachians behave during the New Madrid release?

The group's "green rangers" work several days a week raising and tending to saplings later planted on nearby hillsides.

At other monasteries, up and down the remote hillsides and the steep valleys, Mr Smith made a present of portable hard drives.

The vines are planted on clay and limestone hillsides and terraces covered with small pebbles and fully exposed to the sun.

Looking west, over the Carpathians and into Slovakia, we watched the sky turn a deep blue and lightning strike the far-off hillsides.

Controlled burns of hillsides are clearly a useful tool for restoring an ecosystem to its native habitat as well as managing fire.

New projects include an antiques trading center and a Chinese wine production business that will carve cellars into nearby hillsides.

Hill walkers find dinosaur bones sticking out of hillsides: schoolchildren pick up ostracoderm skeletons on the beach.

But the river traffic is not nearly so interesting as the beautiful scenery along the banks and hillsides.

Flowers of lovesickness silently bloom all over the hillsides.

The land on hilltops and hillsides was all cropped.

Land is so scarce in the crowded countryside near Musanze that farmers struggle to cultivate every foot of the steep, eroding hillsides.

The steepness of the hillsides along the Nu mean that much of the valuable farmland abuts the river and will be flooded by dams.

The water that runs off the hillsides, meanwhile, also increases peak river flows, eroding the banks and raising the risk of landslides.

Existing sculptures and monuments remain on their place, and the hillsides might be used as potential outdoor exhibition area.

And you could see small explosions from the mortars exploding within the outpost and the surrounding hillsides.

Helicopters stretched the hillsides and there were daily newspaper reports of military triumph against the insurgents.

Forest margins, dry grasslands, hillsides, roadsides. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol [Korea, Mongolia, Russia].

Known as wild or feral hogs, pigs or boars, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) once roamed European and Asian hillsides.

Corn snakes may be found in wooded groves, rocky hillsides, meadowlands , woodlots, barns, and abandoned buildings.

Long at the mercy of the monsoons, some Indian farmers are sculpting hillsides to capture runoff, enriching their land and lives.

with fields of rice, wheat, corn or other crops, and hillsides of trees of orange, apple or other fruits.

Yesterday, the denuded hillsides now become a "treasure bowl" , which are plants that and exotica tree, precious medicinal herbs.

It has several modern hotels, pebbly and sandy beaches and hillsides richly scented with herbs growing in the wild.

Grenade's wall - to - wall greenery extends right down the steep hillsides to some of the best beaches in the Caribbean.

The building is set on terraces, like those built by local farmers to prevent earth from being washed down the hillsides.

The skyscrapers of central and southern Chongqing rise above the blue rooftops of small factories that dot the surrounding hillsides.

The hillsides, fields, animal habitats and forests need to be preserved while expanding cities.

Centuries ago, locals torched the hillsides every decade or so to replenish their biological diversity and encourage better hunting.

More than 400 people are still reported to be missing after torrential rain caused whole hillsides to collapse.

Soil and silt washed from logged hillsides, plowed fields, or construction sites, can clog waterways and kill aquatic vegetation.

Look for tilted trees, telephone poles, fences, or walls, and for new holes or bare spots on hillsides.

Entire hillsides that had been packed with slums had been swept bare.

Neighborhoods sometimes spring up on steep hillsides or floodplains, leaving them vulnerable to storms.

By the hundreds and thousands these abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery.

The nomads were welcome passers-through, grazing their camels on the rocky hillsides that separated the fertile plots.

All around, houses and shops lay flattened under a sky turned black with dust kicked up from the heaving hillsides .

The adjoining tree-covered hillsides will help provide a pleasant green enhanced campus environment .

The rising road offered stunning vistas of nearby tawny hillsides thick with summer rock roses, lavender, and thyme.

The car by the island only mid a culvert can lead to extremely steep hillsides, , person " Tongtian road" , others have no way.

Your air and water are clean, the green treed hillsides are protected and salmon and herring spawn in neighbouring waters.

Elaborate terraced fields climb the hillsides where farmers have grown corn and wheat for centuries.

The tauren lands consist of rolling, grassy hillsides that border lakes and natural cave formations.

Damp meadows, sunny pond banks, hillsides; ca. 500 m. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol [Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia].

Pixelation occurs when the digital signal bounces off buildings, hillsides, trees or even passing aircraft.

Now there were only patches of grain on the bare hillsides and on each side of the water -courses .

with the most clouds and mists. Those graying hillsides, with the most warm and humid soil, are heaven for tea trees.

Once the laborers died, their remains were thrown into mountain gullies or pits dug into bare hillsides.

Rocky crevices, slopes, hillsides; 500-3400 m. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan].

In Peru, an earthquake created a landslide, not unknown where steep hillsides are prone to such slides.

Forests, shrublands, hillsides, grasslands, field margins; ca. 1000 m. Jiangxi, Zhejiang.

Hillsides seem silken and silvery, the oceans still and blue in its light.

American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides.

Goral are small goat antelopes perfectly suited to life on the rugged, grassy hillsides.

Mixed forests, limestone hillsides, roadsides, along streams, dark damp places; 100-600 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi.

Sparse mixed forests, scrub, hillsides, wasteland, roadsides; 1400-2800 m. Guizhou, Yunnan [India, Myanmar, Thailand].

Dry hillsides, open sandy areas. Gansu, Shaanxi (Taibai Shan).

Beside streams, hillsides, scrub, forests, alpine meadows; 2500-4800 m. Gansu, Qinghai, W Sichuan, E Xizang [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].

It can be found almost anywhere, but prefers sunny hillsides and rough open country, including high ground.

Grassy hillsides, stream sides, forest margins, forests, bamboo forests; 1500-2700 m. Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Driving on, we entered a landscape with pale pines on hillsides of red earth.

The hillsides are covered with ferns.

Megablocks line the hillsides of Chongqing.

Evergreen broad-leaved forests, hillsides, valleys, along streams, damp and dark places; 100-800 m. Guangdong, Guangxi.

Whole hillsides bear deep gashes hundreds of meters wide.

All Souls Night. Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides.

Tenant farmers grow mushrooms on the hillsides.

Dense forests, hillsides, valleys, damp and shaded places, grassy areas; 900-2200 m. Guangxi, Yunnan [Vietnam].

Dense broad-leaved forests, hillsides, scrub, open fields, valleys, damp places, along streams; 100-1800 m. Hainan.

Landslides caused by rain and steep hillsides is not a preview of what to expect!

Far back the fields were squares of green and brown on the hillsides.

Rocky ravines, cliff ledges, beneath boulders, stony hillsides; 4200-5800 m. Xizang [Bhutan, Sikkim].

Forests, thickets, shaded hillsides along valleys or streams; 1100--2100 m. Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan.

Pigeon houses dot the hillsides on the Greek island of Tinos.

Forests in valleys, shrub lands on hillsides; 300-600 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan [Cambodia, Vietnam].

Bamboo forests, moist places in thickets, hillsides along valleys or streams; 1800--2500 m. C Sichuan (Emei Shan).

The hillsides are not that stable now or in years past with rains.

Beside streams, hillsides, scrub, forest margins; 2200-3600 m. S Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang.

Granite boulders in deep shade of Betula forests, grassy cliff ledges, steep hillsides; 3600--4100 m. Xizang.

And she'll take him out on the moors where he can roll down hillsides.

Land in Rwanda is scarce. But the major problem confronting those who work the land is that almost 90% of arable land is on hillsides.

Grassy hillsides, forest margins, dry thin forests; 1800-2900 m. Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Gardens on the steep hillsides are fenced in the same way.

In the countryside north of Sanya, you can see the hillsides heavy with mango trees and rice.

Forests, hillsides, valleys, moist shaded places, roadsides; 500-2000 m. Taiwan.

Beside streams, wet meadows, hillsides, alpine meadows; 3400-5200 m. Xizang [Nepal].

Rocky hillsides, on moss-covered boulders; 4200--5400 m. S and SE Xizang [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Sikkim].

Woods on hillsides, near rivers; 200-500 m. Guangdong, Hainan, SE Yunnan (Funing) [Vietnam].

Woods on hillsides, near rivers; 200-500 m. Guangdong, Hainan, SE Yunnan (Funing) [Vietnam].

Sheep and cattle graze on the hillsides.

Shrublands, grassy areas of hillsides, meadows; 1600-2100 m. Sichuan, Yunnan.

Alpine coniferous forests, hillsides, river banks; 2000--3600 m. W Sichuan, NE Yunnan.

Grassy places along rivers, hillsides along ravines; 400--1500 m. Hubei, Sichuan.

I love it when there are entire hillsides with colorful and bright aspens.

Mixed forests, rocky shrub lands on hillsides; 1200-1800 m. Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan.

Scrub meadows, rocky hillsides, screes, rock crevices; 3000-4600 m. SE Xizang, NW Yunnan.

Shrublands or forests on hillsides or riversides; 1000-1500 m. Yunnan [Vietnam].

Banks, hillsides, grassy cliff edges; ca. 5000 m. SE Xizang.

On peat, grassy hillsides, cliff; 4000--5000 m. SE Xizang [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Sikkim].

Shrublands on hillsides; ca. 200 m. Guangdong.

Scrub forests, hillsides, roadsides; 800-1500 m. SW Yunnan [Myanmar].

Dry banks, ravines, rocky hillsides, Quercus forests; 1700-3200 m. S Gansu, N Sichuan.

Cultivated in forests on slightly dry hillsides; 600-1000 m. S and SW Yunnan [native to India].

Shrubby hillsides, grassy mountains; 2200--2300 m. Yunnan.

On rocky hillsides there are wooden huts and in wooded valleys, towns of brick.

One hundred and fifty million years ago, the 600-foot high hillsides the team combs were 600 feet below water.

Alpine pastures, open hillsides; 3900-4400 m. Xizang [Bhutan].

Broad-leaved evergreen forests, hillsides; 100-400 m. Taiwan (Huoshao Dao, Lan Yu) [Philippines].

Rocky areas on hillsides; ca. 800 m. Yunnan.

Forests by rivers or on hillsides; 900-1400 m. Yunnan [Vietnam].

Among rocks on north-facing open hillsides; 4200-4300 m. NE Xizang.

On rocks, cliff, steep open hillsides; 4000--5000 m. SE Xizang.

In Haiti, for example, coffee and other tree crops bind the soil on hillsides better than field crops do.

Forests on hillsides or in valleys; 400-1200 m. Yunnan.

The grass flames up on the hillsides like a spring fire, as if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun;

Cattle awake on the meadows; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns;

Closing hillsides to facilitate afforestation, the best way of constructing ecology forest

Practice and Pondering over Ecological Rehabilitation through Grazing Ban and Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation in Ningxia

Plains, valleys, dry sandy or stony slopes, roadsides, thickets, disturbed secondary forests, gravelly ledges, hillsides, dry river banks;

Curving through the country, up steep slopes and down frightening hillsides

Status Quo of Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation in Yunnan Natural Forest Conservation Project and Countermeasures

Studies of Change of Soil Properties after Closing of Hillsides and Management to Facilitate Afforestation in Serious Eroded Red Soil

Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation-an Efficient Method for Forest Cultivation in the Sanjiangyuan Area

Closing Hillsides and Prohibiting Grazing Are Great Strategic Measures to Improve Eco-environment in the Loess Plateau Areas

Sea cliff, hillsides, along streams, roadsides, also extensively cultivated;

Research Process of Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation in Chinese Tropical Zone and Subtropical Zone

Effect of Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation at Stony Hillsides of Karst Area in Southeastern Yunnan

The Closing Hillsides Management for Re-vegetation on the Loess Plateau and Ecological Recovery

Importance of Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation for Vegetation Restoration and Replanting in Jinxi Loess Plateau

Change of biomass and productivity of Pinus massoniana community after closing of hillsides and management in serious eroded red soil

Mixed evergreen forests, cultivated on hillsides, at roadsides, and in country villages;

Analysis on Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation ir Karst Hills

Discussion on Effects and Development of Closing Hillsides to Facilitate Afforestation in Forest Area

Open forests, forest margins, grassy hillsides;

Near farm fields, livestock farms, saline hillsides, dry river beds;

Analysis on Comprehensive Benefits of Water Cellars Built in Hillsides of West Linfen City

Assessment on effect of fully hillsides-closed and afforested mode on natural Pinus tabulaeformis forest

Evergreen broad-leaved forests, shrubby areas, valleys, hillsides; 2000-2700 m. Xizang, Yunnan [Myanmar, Sikkim]

On Planning and Designing of Closing off Hillsides for Tree Growing

Forest margins, forests, hillsides, valleys; 800-3800 m. Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal]

Shrubby areas, limestone hillsides; ca. 2000 m. Yunnan [Vietnam]

Mixed forests, hillsides, open fields; 0-1100 m. Guangdong, Hainan [Philippines, Vietnam]

the steep hillsides of North Wales

Aberdeen Cemetery hugs the hillsides, Hong Kong(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot. )