| Therefore, 10 percent could be used most effectively to alienate traditional fishing grounds, leaving vast areas of non-productive barrens. |
| The prairie barrens occur on limestone with shallow clayey soils that are well-drained. |
| There was no alternative now but to cross the barrens to Whale River on foot. |
| Five minutes later he was plodding steadily ahead of his big Mackenzie hound into the peopleless barrens to the south and west. |
| In part, the barrens exist because repeated advances of glaciers scraped the rock bare. |
| The other is a mosaic of sand barrens and woodland and in this case, poor soil has probably slowed succession. |
