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 county is part of the London commuter belt.

Much of the county is seen as being a bastion of Gaelic culture and the Irish language, the county holding the second-largest Gaeltacht area in the country with a population of 24, 744 16 % of the county's population lives in the Gaeltacht.

Much of what is now county Cork was once part of the Kingdom of Deas Mumhan ( South Munster ), anglicised as " Desmond ", ruled by the MacCarthy Mór dynasty.

Much of county Cork was devastated in the fighting, particularly in the Second Desmond Rebellion.

Much of Baltimore County is suburban in character, straddling the border between the Piedmont plateau and, in the southern regions of the county, the Atlantic coastal plain.

Much of the county lies in the broad Hagerstown Valley between these two zones ; the valley is part of the Great Appalachian Valley that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the Shenandoah Valley and northward into Pennsylvania as the Cumberland Valley.

In 1890, Coubertin wrote an article in La Revue Athletique, which espoused the importance of Much Wenlock — a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.

Much of the county was originally part of Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory before Nevada became a state.

Much of the county is part of the slate valley of the Upper Taconic Mountains ( Taghkanic, meaning ' in the trees ').

Much of the county was confiscated from its owners in 1620 and given to Villiers and Hamilton.

Much of the southern portion of the county lies within the Catskill Mountains.

Much of the county is within the Catskill Mountains and the Shawangunk Ridge.

Much of the rest of the county is land owned by the Ashley National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management.

Much of the county is densely forested with pine, fir, incense-cedar, oak, and madrone ; Siskiyou County is also home to the rare Baker's Cypress Tree, Cupressus bakeri, which grows in only eleven scattered locations in the world, five of which are in Siskiyou County.

Much of Vilas County is covered by the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest as well as extensive county forest lands.

Mondeaux Dam Recreation Area, in the Chequamegon National Forest, in the north-central part of the county. Much of the cut-over north-central part of the county was designated part of the Chequamegon National Forest in 1933.

Much of the area of the northern and western parts of the county is either public ( Monongahela National Forest ), coal land, or private forest, owned by companies such as MeadWestvaco and CSX.

Much of the county is flat to rolling plains.

Much of the county is flat and coastal, with many beaches.

Much of the county is hilly, with several hills rising to one thousand foot in elevation.

Much of the county lies between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers on geographically long narrow peninsula, ( sometimes called Bergen Neck ), that is a contiguous urban area where it's often difficult to know when one's crossed a civic boundary.

Much of the county is included within the Ozark Highlands American Viticultural Area ( AVA ).

Much of the county is covered with thick forests, reestablished since in the 1920s.