Much of the land surrounding the Detroit River is urbanized and, in some places, heavily industrialized.

Much more forest land – about 40 percent of the total forest land base – is subject to varying degrees of protection through processes such as integrated land use planning or defined management areas such as certified forests ( Natural Resources Canada ).

Much of the land along the Gulf Coast is, or was, marshland.

Much of their land remained unused because it lacked irrigation.

Much money has been spent for land amelioration projects involving the installation of drainage pipes, the straightening and deepening of natural streams, the digging of drainage ditches, and the construction of polder dams.

Much of the population engages in subsistence farming, even though only 10. 71 % of the country's surface is classified as arable land and 0. 13 % has permanent crops.

Much of the land has been ruined by soil erosion.

Much like Mormon ( who may have taken Amaleki as his model ), this last historian of the civilization that lasted for 400 years in the land of Nephi rose to the occasion and, filled with a sense of longing for what has been lost, eloquently recounted the last days of the Nephite people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Nephi.

Much of this success in defense lay in the world's first use of gunpowder ( i. e. with early flamethrowers, grenades, firearms, cannons, and land mines ) to fight back against the Khitans, the Tanguts, the Jurchens, and then the Mongols.

Much of this land was " debated " between England and Scotland, but the Earldom of Northumbria was eventually recognised as part of England by the Anglo-Scottish Treaty of York in 1237.

Much of the land acquired had been platted into lots in 1912 by the Munger Land Company and sold to investors.

Much of the land being opened up to Anglos in Mexican Texas was well suited for cotton, but raising cotton was a labor intensive endeavor at the time, profitable only by use of slave labor.

Much of the land is now under local control and commercial activity is based on tourism, crofting, fishing, and weaving.

Much of the land in the south part of the Valley, in Conejos and Costilla counties, was originally part of large Mexican land grants and is private land.

Much of the land was still owned by individual landowners, often private estates, but there was also property owned by public bodies such as the Crown, or charities which allow and encourage access such as the National Trust.

Much of the land that was not purchased by UCI ( which is now occupied by the cities of Irvine, Tustin, Newport Beach, and Newport Coast ) is now held under The Irvine Company.

Much of the land had been farmed too hard for too long, eroding and depleting the soil.

Much of the land between the coastal strip and the hinterland was once wetlands drained by this river, but the swamps have been converted into man-made waterways ( over 260 km, or over 9 times that of Venice, Italy ) and artificial islands covered in upmarket homes.

Much of the island's land mass has been lost to erosion, down to about from its original.

Much of the land purchased came from the Agnew Family in Tupelo who still owns some of the battlefield property.

Much of the gaming materials and other writings focus particularly on these Five Empires which control much of the world's northern continent ( only about an eighth of the planet's surface has published maps ).

Much of its surface consists of deserts and mountain ranges, and large areas are set aside as wilderness preserves.

For example, Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing used this ploy to present a surface level description of the play as well as a pun on the Elizabethan use of " nothing " as slang for vagina.

Much of space weather is driven by energy carried through interplanetary space by the solar wind from regions near the surface of the Sun and the Sun's atmosphere ( chromosphere and corona ).

Much of the plains region is semiarid, with steady winds that hasten evaporation of surface water and precipitation.

Much of U. S. 12 in Illinois is a divided highway and it is surface road.

Much like podocarps, it feeds in the organic litter near the surface of the soil through fine root hairs.

Much of the softer ore was formed close to the surface, allowing mining operations to be conducted via the open pit mines.

Much of the incompleteness of the fossil record is due to the fact that only a small amount of rock is ever exposed at the surface of the Earth, and not even most of that has been explored.

* 2006-01-13, Sciencedaily: Deep-rooted Plants Have Much Greater Impact On Climate Than Experts Thought Citat: "... The tap roots transfer rainwater from the surface to reservoirs deep underground and redistribute water ... increases photosynthesis and the evaporation of water ... by 40 percent in the dry season ... During the wet season, these plants can store as much as 10 percent of the annual precipitation as deep as 13 meters ( 43 feet ) underground, to be tapped during the dry months ... tree roots acting like pipes to allow water to shift around much faster than it could otherwise percolate through the soil ..."

Much of the fort moved underground, with deep passages and tunnels to connect the blockhouses and firing points in the ditch to the fort proper, with magazines and machine rooms deep under the surface.

Much of the surface of the plateau was once classified as laterite, and layers that can easily be cut into brick-shaped blocks are still so called, but the classification of soils as various types of oxisols is more useful for agriculture.

Much of the yield near the surface is Roman and Venetian.

Much of this effect can be attributed to low city albedo, the reflecting power of a surface, and the increased surface area of buildings to absorb solar radiation.

Much like Spider-Man, Kasady has the ability to cling to virtually any surface, and has a version of Spider-Man's spider-sense, as the symbiote can relay information to him from any angle and grants Kasady the ability to " see " in any direction, warning him of incoming threats.

Much of Earth is devastated ; civilization collapses and much of the surface is rendered temporarily uninhabitable.

In 1997, a new logo was designed with a black-and-white Much superimposed on a planet with longitude / latitude lines on the surface.

PunchMuch was rebranded as Juicebox as of November 2011, presently though, MuchLoud is the only MuchMusic-branded channel that continues to use the logo with Much superimposed on a planet with longitude / latitude lines on the surface and ' Loud ' below it.

Much of the stucco on the surface of the temple has vanished.

Much of the work done by surface supplied divers is on the bottom, and weighted boots may be used to allow the diver to walk upright on the bottom.

Much of the coal is near to the surface, and as early as 1598, the area was extracting 2, 000 tons a year.

* 2006-01-13, Sciencedaily: Deep-rooted Plants Have Much Greater Impact On Climate Than Experts Thought Citation: "... The tap roots transfer rainwater from the surface to reservoirs deep underground and redistribute water ... increases photosynthesis and the evaporation of water ... by 40 percent in the dry season ... During the wet season, these plants can store as much as 10 percent of the annual precipitation as deep as 13 meters ( 43 feet ) underground, to be tapped during the dry months ... tree roots acting like pipes to allow water to shift around much faster than it could otherwise percolate through the soil.