Environmentalists said all logging, legal or not, had contributed to the denuding of the country's forest, of which only 13 percent remains.

As the long drought-period from 1968 through 1974 began, the grazing quickly became unsustainable, and large-scale denuding of the terrain followed.

Heavy logging led to the almost complete denuding of the rainforest clad hills in the district around Maleny.

The gear was not unusual; many devotees of the game recorded the denuding of the sheirl in music and image.

If this type of pruning is done over a three-year period, the plant can be rejuvenated gradually without a total denuding of the landscape.

As we understand it, the major cause of What's Coming is the present-day denuding of our planet-the massive overcutting of its forests.

The influential Westminster Gazette, organ of the Liberals, denounced the "reckless" denuding of the country.

So I won't be recommending any resolutions to you, like to read more, to cut back on the denuding of our forests for paper products, or to start buying more e-books.

He is a sorcerer of relaxation and threat, and Martha-whom he has rechristened Marcy May, in a further denuding of her identity-is duly entranced.

An ecological consequence of the introduction of the bascule light was the denuding of Anholt for firewood and the resulting creation of Anholt's "desert" (see below).

Forests were cut down or burned to make room for agriculture, resulting in the near complete denuding of the once contiguous forests of southern New England by the 19th century.

The denuding of the lands was increased during the war in Eriador; for the exiled natives welcomed Sauron and hoped for his victory over the Men of the Sea.

Among other things, it would prohibit the destruction or denuding of dunes and bar construction on the lakeward face of barrier dunes or on sand slopes greater than 25 degrees.

But after a contractor removed another tree and some shrubbery, 13 neighbors signed a petition demanding that the Livelys undo what the petition called the "unauthorized removal of the maple and the denuding of the granite outcropping."

In addition to portraits of the virgin, Christ on the cross, and the apostles, there is a large and outstanding El Greco work over the main altar of the sacristy - Expolio (The Denuding of Christ).

It opens the possibility, if there are repetitions, of the further denuding of European competition; five former champions of the continent - Liverpool, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and Ajax - are now banned.

Due to the denuding of the Indian Army caused by commitments overseas during the First World War, many of the battalions employed in this campaign were second-line units with disproportionately large numbers of very young soldiers with inexperienced officers.

Hundreds of high-style bird food stores have opened, offering everything from the Yankee Flipper (a battery-powered feeder whose perch begins wildly spinning at the touch of an intrusive squirrel to cast him off) to Under Cover Coffee (purist beans harvested without the usual denuding of bird habitats).

In a serious attack, the bush can be denuded of leaves.

She had, however, denuded the top of the vanity table.

By this time the forest had been almost completely denuded.

Never did I denude myself of my clothes so rapidly.

If they threw them all out, the churches would be denuded.

The countryside would not be denuded and become a desert.

However, most of these areas are actually open grasslands and denuded.

Man has made his environment precarious for himself, by denuding it of what he needs.

As far as they could see the land was denuded.

She must be denuded to the music of what?

Next to us was an empty, steep lot that had been denuded of trees.

"So that the whole culture has been denuded of any secrecy or glamour."

"Were they to sell any one of them would be to denude the collection.

By the 1930s, much of the land was completely denuded.

"The president has essentially denuded himself of possible political cover, should he need it.

And besides being thus denuded, he was without his full complement of teeth.

Then the camp is going to be denuded of its French character.' "

Within ten years, the insect had denuded the vegetation in the neighborhood.

So you run the risk of denuding the bottom of the lake.

A property could be denuded if someone left only the weak trees as the result of a poor cutting plan.

"And all of a sudden we're talking about denuding the ground-"

He knew, however, that the large woods near the encampment would be denuded before the end of the season.

I said, embarrassed that my mind was being read and so crassly denuded.

After all efforts to save them were unsuccessful, the trees had been completely denuded by late 2012.

What memories and archives have not yet been denuded of all relevant detail?