Blanket bogs formed on sites where Neolithic farmers cleared trees for farming.
In desperation, the farmers have cleared new lands in the hope of harvesting more corn, even if much is lost to the disease.
Before then, farmers relentlessly cleared wooded space to be able to cultivate land, their only survival mean.
To achieve higher production figures, traditional farmers using traditional technologies simply cleared more and more land.
Our farmers went ashore and cleared land to plant the seeds that we had brought with us.
As farmers cleared land, they started cultivating cotton.
The first farmers cleared forestry to graze livestock and grow crops.
Small farmers settled along the roads and cleared forests, creating a highly fragmented forest pattern with many edges.
By the mid-18th century Dutch farmers had cleared some of the woods for fields.
Not entirely, because the fortified town offers protection for the area, which means farmers will clear the nearby land and start new farms.