It is anticipated that all the island's rainforests, excluding those in protected areas and the steepest eastern mountain slopes, will have been deforested by 2025.

The hill takes its name from the ancient box woodland found on the steepest west-facing chalk slopes overlooking the River Mole.

The villages are bordered uphill by a large belt of forestlike tree gardens, which dissolves into the upper montane forest on the steepest parts of the slopes up to the ridge of the caldera.

The steepest slopes, which may reach 50 % slope, face the northeast.

Queen Anne slopes are home to seven of the twenty steepest streets in the city and 120 pedestrian staircases.

About eight separate Grande Ronde Basalt flows have been mapped in the Tualatin Mountains ( West Hills ), where they underlie the steepest slopes of Forest Park and form the columned rocks visible along Balch Creek Canyon and Northwest Cornell Road.

The average slope along the volcano's northern ( and steepest ) flank is 0. 5 °, which is over five times lower than the slopes on the other large Tharsis volcanoes.

The central edifice has the steepest slopes on the volcano, although they are still only 1 °.

The steepest slopes are home to hard, evergreen chaparral.

Current velocities were 20 m · s < sup >- 1 </ sup > on the steepest slopes and 3. 7 m · s < sup >- 1 </ sup > on the shallowest slopes.

The south-facing Y-Zones ( yellow wax ), are the steepest, with slopes as steep as 48 degrees, according to Aspen Highlands trail maps.

It is one of the steepest railways in the country, and at least one source ( the information panel outside the top station ) claims it is both the steepest and shortest.

The road approaching the pass vies with Rosedale Chimney Bank in North Yorkshire for the title of steepest road in England with both achieving a gradient of 1 in 3 ( about 33 %).

It is one of the steepest railways in the country, and at least one source ( the information panel outside the top station ) claims it is both the steepest and shortest.

In both the original and the preconditioned conjugate gradient methods one only needs to always set in order to turn them into locally optimal, using the line search, steepest descent methods.

When it opened on May 28, 1994, the ( Pepsi Max ) Big One roller coaster was both the tallest and steepest roller coaster in the world.

The top can be reached with the Pilatus Railway, the world ’ s steepest cogwheel railway from Alpnachstad, operating from May to November ( depending on snow conditions ), and the whole year with the aerial panorama gondolas and aerial cableways from Kriens.

The tallest and steepest mountains, up to 600 m. a. s. l., can be found in the north.

The breakup of the USSR and the collapse of demand for Kazakhstan's traditional heavy industry products have resulted in a sharp contraction of the economy since 1991, with the steepest annual decline occurring in 1994.

However, for a time the Comford and High Peak Railway did have the sharpest curve out of all railways in Britain and the steepest incline for vehicles without steam power.

Will be the only wooden coaster in the world ( after Son of Beast ) to have inversions, including a double barrel roll and an over-banked turn, it will also be the steepest wooden coaster in the world too with an 81 degree drop.

Many of these people have had additional incisional surgeries like Astigmatic Keratotomy ( AK ), where incisions are placed at the steepest points of the cornea in people with astigmatism so as to relax and transform the cornea to a more spherical shape.

Rafting is also popular in some of the Canadian stretches of the river, especially those near the headwaters that have the steepest gradient and the most challenging rapids.

Sanahin () is a village in the northern province of Lori in Armenia, now considered part of the city of Alaverdi ( the cable car that connects it with the Alaverdi centre is supposed to have the steepest climb in the whole former USSR ).

Many riders who are primarily time-trialists have also been able to compete in everything but the steepest climbs because of their good power-to-weight ratio.

Vale Street in Bristol is often also reported as the steepest street in Britain and hence may have a slope even steeper than 40 %.

All of this landscape is criss-crossed by a multitude of footpaths, delimited by dry-stone walls, which past generations for many years created and embellished even cobbling the steepest parts so as to enable animals shod with horseshoes and beasts of burden to obtain a better grip, and now with the passage of time and thanks to the sensitivity of the current inhabitants, these old footpaths have been recovered.

Other arduous duties that the class frequently undertook were the regular turns on the Settle to Carlisle route, which has some of the steepest gradients and harshest working conditions of any British mainline.

At 1 in 14, it was the steepest in Britain and trains frequently had to be split and pulled up a few wagons at a time.

Team cars stalled on the steepest part, some unable to restart because their tires slipped on messages painted by fans.

they were steepest on the shores facing the direction of the seaquake from which the waves had come.

The Blue Mountains rise to these elevations from the coastal plain in the space of about, thus producing one of the steepest general gradients in the world.

This had the steepest seating of any known theater in the ancient world.

Population growth was steepest in the period after World War II ( 1. 4 % per annum during 1950-1970, doubling time 50 years ), it slowed down during the 1970s to 1980s and has since again picked up to 1 % during the 2000s ( doubling time 70 years ).

An important subclass are the local search methods, that view the elements of the search space as the vertices of a graph, with edges defined by a set of heuristics applicable to the case ; and scan the space by moving from item to item along the edges, for example according to the steepest descent or best-first criterion, or in a stochastic search.

The east side of the Central Mountain Range is the steepest mountain slope in Taiwan, with fault scarps ranging in height from 120 to.

The Johnstown Inclined Plane ( built 1890 ) in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in the United States claims to be the world's steepest vehicular inclined plane at 70. 9 %.

Chattanooga, Tennessee is home to the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway ( built 1895 ) that travels from the base to the top of Lookout Mountain, and claims to be the steepest funicular in the world with a maximum grade of 72 percent.

This site is home to the steepest funicular railway in the world, the Katoomba Scenic Railway, which was originally built to facilitate coal and oil shale mining in the Jamison Valley.

The southern mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway penetrated the range via the passes of the Coquihalla River, along one of the steepest and snowiest routes in the entire Pacific Cordillera.

Polk County and Saluda are infamous among railroad enthusiasts for the Saluda Grade, the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway grade in the United States.

However according to US Census data released in 2011, Scott County saw the steepest drop in median income of all the populous counties in Minnesota.

In Chicago, the rate increased to 10. 25 percent, the steepest nominal rate of any major metropolitan area in America.

it is also home to the worlds steepest railway, The Katoomba Scenic Railway.

The line holds the record for the steepest gradient on any standard ( i. e. adhesion ) railway.

West of Tryon, the railroad ascends the Blue Ridge along the Saluda Grade, which was the steepest railroad grade in the country before becoming inactive.

The village is located in an area with some of the steepest terrain in normally flat Western Ohio and serves as home to the Mad River Mountain ski area.

The branch was the steepest track on the EBT and remained in service until the line closed in 1956.

The line had one of the steepest grades of any C & O branch, a 4. 17 % grade.