The fenced or open area around a barn barn lot barnyard corral cow lot cow yard lot night pasture pound trap << back to top A place for keeping root vegetables through the winter bank cave cold cellar fruit cellar hole kiln potato hill << back to top The place in the barn for storing...
Slips and surface flooding closed some roads in the Wellington area for a time. A canoeist in the flooded Hutt River was tipped out of his canoe and knocked unconscious. Although he was pulled from the river and resuscitated, he died in hospital several days later. Heavy rain also ...
We asked you for photos that tell great stories, and we received thousands. These are the winners of the 11th annual National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition.
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This approach wasn't possible in an urban area. The trust decided instead to build a fence—one that would exclude 14 undesirable species of mammal: possums, stoats, ferrets, cats, dogs, rabbits, hedgehogs, weasels, two species of rat, mice, deer, goats and pigs. Nobody had ...
Worldwide it'd have to be the Yasawa Islands, a nearly uninhabited chain of islands (no electricity in any of the villages) in Fiji. In the U.S. it'd have to be my dissertation research area in central Esmeralda County, Nevada. It's a big county and it used to have the claim ...
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and culture with visitors. Native handicrafts are promoted and encouraged, and archeological sites treated with respect. The area overlooked is the surrounding waters. In Valetta I saw a sudden downpour wash motor oil, plastic debris, and other trash into the Mediterranean, where it sat for days...