How To Use Heathland In A Sentence
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After his arrival in Cape Town, follow Monty on his tour of Grootbos private nature reserve in the Western Cape's fynbos heathland region, renowned for its unusual shrubs and trees.
Setting off on a South African adventure
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What if the new wood is planted on an area of heathland?
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By the little bridge itself the turf is spangled with yellow quadrants of tormentil – a miniature heathland potentilla the woody, red, astringent rhizome of which was much prized by the apothecaries.
Country diary: Barmouth
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Enjoy the fresh green landscape as you leave Hilversum on a leisurely ride through the heathlands and dunes.
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This will be replaced by mixed open forest and heathland, helping integrate the moorland, which has special protection status, to the forest.
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It gives new rights to walk over private land that can be classed as mountain, moorland, heathland or down.
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In the heathlands, with such frequent fires, plants have evolved to germinate only following fires, because then they can take advantage of the pulse of nutrients deposited in the soil by ash.
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
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Across Europe, the biggest declines from 1990 to 2000 had been for bogs and fenland, heathland and coastal habitats.
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It was Clumber House, a mansion built by the Duke of Newcastle in 1767 and set in 3,800 acres of woodland and heathland now owned by the National Trust.
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The heathland (vera) which forms a narrow ecotone between the dunes and the marsh and also covers the land furthest from the Guadalquiver, is a series of low ridges and hollows.
Doñana National Park, Spain
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And it seems admirers have a treat in store this year on Girraween's alpine style heathlands, meadows and high altitude forests.
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This is the time of year when heathland or bogland fires sometimes break out as tinder-dry dead vegetation catches alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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A mix of habitats, from mixed woods to heath and sand dunes, has been created, and conifers are being removed from another 72 acres to extend the area of heathland.
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The holes filled with water creating nine ponds whilst the heaps became covered in heathland.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
March « 2009 « Sentence first
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It says the council's primary role is to maintain the commons as a public amenity, rather than restore the area as a heathland habitat.
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The Grayling has a very coastal distribution in Scotland being found on rocky cliffs, dunes, grassland, heathland or along woodland paths but all these diverse habitats are characterised by having open bare areas of soil or stony ground which receive the full warmth of the sun.
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Developments elsewhere, for example on Dorset heathland, require strong opposition if the fragile habitat of rare wildlife is to be saved.
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And it seems admirers have a treat in store this year on Girraween's alpine style heathlands, meadows and high altitude forests.
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It gives new rights to walk over private land that can be classed as mountain, moorland, heathland or down.
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The pond is actually quite a large lake, fringed with extensive reedbeds and patches of willow scrub, surrounded by heathland and birch scrub.
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Open all year; £8.50-£23.50 per pitch per night (two adults plus vehicle), £1.75-£3.50 per child (5-15) per night; 0845 1308224To the cognoscenti, Kelling Heath is Center Parcs at a fraction of the price: a safe, sprawling space surrounded by miles of woodland and heathland trails, with outdoor and indoor swimming pools and bars and restaurants onsite.
The 10 best family campsites
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The Chatham forest flora has affinities with the Kermadec islands, Norfolk Island, and the New Zealand mainland, while the Chathams heathland has strong affinities with the flora of other subantarctic islands such as Campbell Island, the Snares, and the Solander Islands.
Chatham Island temperate forests
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Farmers and landowners planning to plough up or alter moor and heathland in the Peak District have been warned that they now need prior permission.
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The heathland (vera) which forms a narrow ecotone between the dunes and the marsh and also covers the land furthest from the Guadalquiver, is a series of low ridges and hollows.
Doñana National Park, Spain
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This flora of the fells is found in upland pastures, on barren and dry soil, in heathland and on ledges.
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A forest for them and their successors was an area of unenclosed countryside, consisting of a highly variable mixture of woodland, heathland, scrub and agricultural land.
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One was a species of Euphrasia, or eyebright, endemic to the peaty heathlands and mountains of the Port Davey area and never before described.
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This area of grazing marshes is now a nature reserve and includes woodland, marsh and heathland, and can be explored on marked trails.
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One section of the garden demonstrates a method developed by the conservation group English Nature to restore heathland, a landscape habitat that is rarer than rainforest and being lost at a rate of 15 percent a decade.
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The scrubland (cotos) and heathland ecotone (vera) are the richest habitats for most animals apart from waterbirds.
Doñana National Park, Spain
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To prevent succession by trees, heathlands on the southern Massachusetts islands are managed by conservation organizations and state agencies mainly through controlled burning, mowing, or grazing.
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The heathland as such on the Great Heath only dates to the post-Norman period, when centuries of nutrient depletion and a deteriorating climate led to its formation.
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Its first two summers were spent as a pioneer of a forest that was never meant to be, since heathland depends on maintaining a permanent state of arrested development.
Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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Landscape projects include a major footpath and bridleway improvement program, establishing a network of cycle routes, tree planting and hedge laying, heathland management and survey and maintenance work on the coastal National Trail.
Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom
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Avoid snake bites by avoiding areas such as heathland where they are more common.
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
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Burying plastic bottles in the heathland may seem a little strange to some of our visitors, but the experts have found that this is the best way to translocate the spiders, said Branston.
UK's rarest spider moves house in a plastic bottle
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The Fire brigade were called just before 11 pm and extinguished the fire, which burned an area of heathland around three-quarters of a mile square.
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The grayling is a common heathland butterfly.
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Wetter areas are home to the silken surfaces of green-veined whites, while some heathlands host the dazzling green hairstreak.
Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
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The more open grasslands and heathlands contain fewer mammal species, with the klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus), sable antelope (Papio cynocephalus), eland (Taurotragus oryx) and hyraxes (Procavia capensis) being the most conspicuous.
Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
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‘You're so privileged to grow up in this area with all the walking trails, coastal heathlands and rainforests - while you're at school I challenge you to get to know all of your national parks,’ he said to the assembly.
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By the little bridge itself the turf is spangled with yellow quadrants of tormentil – a miniature heathland potentilla the woody, red, astringent rhizome of which was much prized by the apothecaries.
Country diary: Barmouth
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The environment we were working in was called heathland.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute! Part 2
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It was an area of open heathland broken up by small clumps of trees, many misshapen and stunted by the constant attentions of wandering ponies.
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A third of it is open heathland, carpeted with purple heathers and spotted yellow with gorse.
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Coastal heathlands are dominated by early successional species such as dwarf shrubs and grasses, and support many rare and endemic species.
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The diversity of its landscape is unique, and includes woodland, open heathland and coastal land.
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Mr Krause said an increase in heathland generally would increase the county's population of adders, rare butterflies, such as the Green Hairstreak and Purple Hairstreak, as well as nightjars and woodlarks.
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A search is underway for the owners of an area of Harray heathland, so that a 4,000 year old archaeological site can be opened to the public for the first time ever.
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It gives new rights to walk over private land that can be classed as mountain, moorland, heathland or down.
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A forest for them and their successors was an area of unenclosed countryside, consisting of a highly variable mixture of woodland, heathland, scrub and agricultural land.
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Once more, firm sand provided a gentle walking surface until almost the end of the beach, where we rested before the short but stiff climb to the heathland above the cliffs.
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Sheep were then introduced creating the heathland which still covers much of the area.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
