Even the legal system recognizes this right to private decisionmaking and jealously guards it from unfair encroachment.
It was, in effect, a tool used by the state to regulate its citizens rather than to protect them from the encroachment of the state.
The fragments were isolated by distances of 70-650 m from continuous forest and fenced to prevent encroachment by cattle.
The final commentary, that of human encroachment on nature, ties the two above themes together.
A resulting sense of parochial pride could have a socially galvanising effect on parishioners, particularly in instances where encroachments were threatened.
The purpose of both provisions was to restrict federal power to the national sphere while excluding state encroachment on that sphere.
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
This protection may be sufficient to slow the drying of forest fuels and preserve them in a non-flammable state during most savanna fire encroachments.
