stripped of vegetation

Stripped of vegetation, these slopes erode easily and can become unstable.

The river's banks were once stripped of vegetation; now its waters lap forested highlands.

The rest opf the continent has been stripped of vegetation by firestorms and falling debris.

Before the development of Castlecrag, the peninsula was being stripped of vegetation for firewood, soil and other needs.

A guidance plot filled her mind, all close-packed brown and blue contour lines, a computer image of how the earth would look stripped of vegetation.

Instead, bare branches appeared as woody stands of toothpick-thin skeletons, the way they might in February when they are stripped of vegetation.

When the ground surface is stripped of vegetation and then seared of all living organisms, the upper soils are vulnerable to both wind and water erosion.

As Sileshi Tessera writes in his study, "Tach Gayint has been virtually stripped of vegetation."

T.C. Boyle's reference to war is as vivid as the lake, "so stripped of vegetation it looked as if the Air Force had strafed it."

"Lake Conroe went from being a world-class bass fishery to a big mudhole," said Mr. Anderson, describing the lake as an unmitigated disaster, stripped of vegetation, foreign and native.

Docks were constructed on pile driven timbers and more and more of the island was stripped of vegetation and elevated living spaces, docks, warehouses, etc. were constructed.

In Malibu, Altadena and other areas swept by firestorms in the fall of 1993, many residents were evacuated as crews battled to save houses from mudslides on hills stripped of vegetation by the wildfires.

On the drive from the plains of West Bengal to the old British hill station of Darjeeling, the winding road that hugs the mountainside is showered with falling rocks, harbingers of landslides on slopes stripped of vegetation.

The dell was stripped of vegetation and the stream channelled into a conduit with work started on the embankment and viaduct, before the project was abandoned and the D.N.S.R. obtained running rights over the L.S.W.R. from Winchester into Southampton.