Hereabouts short-grass prairie gave way to tall-grass plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
It is a wet, dark muddy, tall-grass place of rebirth and regeneration. From Wordnik.com. [detente - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Currently, birch tall-grass forests are close to extinction throughout their range. From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh forest steppe] Reference
The United States has lost nearly all of the original tall-grass prairie that once covered the Great Plains. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 20- Higher-Order Effects] Reference
Southern and western tall grasslands zone; tall-grass areas, perennial and annual crops in mixed farming systems. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Uganda] Reference
The few remaining pigmy hogs mainly inhabit tall-grass savannas, but it seems likely that they could adapt to other environments. From Wordnik.com. [11 The Bearded Pig] Reference
A loner-type teenager wearing a black t-shirt and white shorts stood in the center of a tall-grass field holding onto a kite string. From Wordnik.com. [The Spear Master] Reference
In the tall-grass prairie of Iowa, for example, typical grasses are big bluestem and little bluestem; a typical forb is black-eyed Susan. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Division (Bailey)] Reference
And, so terrifyingly unpredictable, the forest kept changing about her again and again, tossing her into swamp or thick bushes or tall-grass meadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaos Gate]
Ecoregion 54e was once covered by distinctive tall-grass prairies, scrub oak forests, fens, marshes, sand prairies, and sand savannas that supported a diverse fauna. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)] Reference
The PNV of the Chiwaukee Prairie Region is predominantly tall-grass prairie, in contrast to the southern mesic forest and oak savanna of the adjacent region to the north and west. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Wisconsin (EPA)] Reference
Short-grass prairie occurs in the west, in the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains, with mixed-grass prairie in the central Great Plains and tall-grass prairie in the wetter eastern region. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains ecoregion (CEC)] Reference
From there he could see across rooftops glittering beneath the afternoon sun, red and green and every color, to the long earthen causeways that cut through the vast tall-grass marsh surrounding city and harbor. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Ten acres of tall-grass prairie stretched into the distance. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Iconic tall-grass prairie nears extinction, disappearing faster than before. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Global warming to trigger more warming - study] Reference
The destruction of the tall-grass prairies began when settlers first arrived. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
Selena pulled her tall-grass French on a Hackman, but there was nothing doing. From Wordnik.com. [Ade's Fables] Reference
And the tall-grass prairie, which starts farther east, is the most threatened, Riley said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"If you made all that land into tall-grass prairie, you'd still have land to grow grains for humans.". From Wordnik.com. [MotherJones.com] Reference
When the West was settled, both bison and wildfires died out, leaving the tall-grass prairies vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
This spells doom for the dozens of butterflies, rare plants and songbirds that make their home in the tall-grass prairies. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
Other alien species, such as dandelions and sowthistles, are moving in and crowding out the tall-grass prairies, she said. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
It is maintained by the Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University and is an outstanding example of a tall-grass prairie. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Best times to visit: early spring, when delicate wildflowers carpet the woods, and fall, when the tall-grass prairie is in bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Mozel KE, Henderson DC (2010) Recent declines in northern tall-grass prairies and effects of patch structure on community persistence. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
"I had a cost-share program for them where we could convert this farm from short brome grass to a tall-grass prairie area with wildflowers," Gritsch said. From Wordnik.com. [press-citizen.com - SPORTS] Reference
In the tall-grass method, native beaters are sent in long skirmish line through swamps and such places as lions like to lay up in during the hours of daylight. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
Indeed, occasionally, a pack of lions likes to live high in the tall-grass ridges where every hunt will mean for them a four - or five-mile jaunt out and back again. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
As a rule, the tall-grass Plunger with a wad of new Kale has about the same percentage in his favor as that enjoyed by a Shoat out at the well-known Establishment of Armour & Co. From Wordnik.com. [Ade's Fables] Reference
The tall-grass prairies have historically minimized the impact of annual flooding in the Red River Valley by slowing the spring snow melt and increasing soil absorption, she said. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
A coalition of govenrment and environmental groups, including the Nature Conservancy of Canada, is involved in perserving a large swath of tall-grass prairie in southeastern Manitoba. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
Nicola Koper, author of the study and ecologist at the University of Manitoba, found more than one-third of the remaining tall-grass prairies have disappeared since they were last surveyed in the 1980s. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
"Do we as a society want to retain this component of our heritage and have tall-grass prairies where we can bring our own children and allow them to pick flowers that are taller than themselves?" she said. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
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