scrubland

The chain wends its way up the beach, into the arid scrubland and westwards on towards the Kenya border.

The land the BLM owns is mostly scrubland suitable for cattle grazing and basically nothing else.

Even if you rented prime farmland for solar instead of scrubland, it’s still super cheap.

At least in the US, much of the scrubland can't support crops without intensive irrigation and fertilizer, but they can support cattle.

At least, if you look at them on streetview a lot of them seem to be in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by miles of undeveloped scrubland.

Orchards full of fruit trees, with sheep grazing the grass underneath, bees pollinating the flowers, and pigs in the scrubland next door to feed the windfalls to.

Managed crop monoculture, which ~half of farmland is - is not 'something similar' to natural forests, plains, grasslands, scrubland, etc.

- Those trees were planted for a reason and a lot of plantations are planted on degraded farmland or scrubland.

For example - it's possible that tundra methane emissions in many areas could be mitigated relatively quickly by the regrowth of birch and pine scrubland whose increased evapotranspiration will reduce water tables and eliminate methane emissions.

I've never been able to find the footage again, but it was quite something - arid scrubland in the foreground, rabbit-proof fence across the middle, and orange sand from there to the horizon.

Soy production, for example, sufficient to meet global demand requires destroying the Amazon; meat production is much less destructive to land, taking place either on non-arable scrubland or via consuming human-inedible surplus feedstock.

> why did these hills survive Because it's low density arid scrubland that is primarily inhabited by Kurdish and Turkish herders, and was a no-go zone during the PKK Insurgency.