Sentences with phrase «american prairie»

Now, armed with rapidly expanding knowledge about carbon sequestration in soils, researchers are studying how land restoration programs in places like the former North American prairie, the North China Plain, and even the parched interior of Australia might help put carbon back into the soil...

We plowed up the American prairie, and downed rain forests.

I have spend most of my adult life working and crossing the great American prairie and have a great appreciation what it must have been like for the Native Americans trying to live there.

I grew up with a farmer as a father and a teacher as a mother, both old enough to be raised in the post-depression era on the American prairie.

The title also finds literal expression in five ink drawings that are collaged into photographs of the American prairie and of mountain ranges.

This exhibition offers eleven views of small towns on the North American prairie.

The story opens in 1871, as Danish immigrant Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) welcomes his wife (Nanna Oland Fabricius) and young son to the American prairie where he has worked for seven years.

Across the great American prairie, the skies were nearly black with Passenger Pigeons whose disappearance, like the buffalo's, was thought to be inconceivable.

Livieri is involved in the reintroduction of the black - footed ferret on North American prairies, which began when only 18 wild individuals were left.

Every year, part of the population flies south to North American prairies.

Far from diminishing his reverence for nature, his burgeoning belief in evolution opens vistas as immense as the sparsely populated American prairies that the Lewis and Clark Expedition had mapped not long before the voyage of the Beagle.

North American prairies were meters - deep in rich soil.

Not exact matches

All of my life I've been a passionate lover of our rich American land's variety: the lonely beauty of New England, the great chain of the Appalachians and the Green and White Mountains, the sweep of the prairies, the majesty of the Rockies, the unbelievable fecundity of the West Coast valleys.

The exhibits along the path, which opened last month, include a boardwalk that zigzags over a wetland, a Native American wigwam, the foundation of a prairie sod home and a garden filled with flowers hybridized by a priest from the nearby Society of the Divine Word.

In the United States, plague cases tend to crop up in the bubonic form, usually among people in the American Southwest who have been exposed to prairie dogs or ground squirrels and their fleas.

Billionaire Koch is a noted libertarian activist and philanthropist from Kansas who has supported research at MIT, research on prairie grasses, and the Americans for Prosperity organization, which has fought the USA PATRIOT Act and the Democrats» health care reform plans.

To begin, she and her team set out to study the prairie soils that dominate much of the American heartland.

Because they eat as much as 7 percent of a ranch's forage, prairie dog eradication programs have been underway for decades in the American West.

Many animals that live on today's prairie would have been familiar to Native Americans, the first humans to live on prairies.

With her resort 2017 line - up, Donatella Versace evoked fancy Midwestern American motifs both through the aforementioned biker jackets and the micro-floral prairie - inspired patterns, plissé A-line skirts, patchwork shirts and, through more curve - hugging silhouettes and contrasting hems to highlight the cities» skylines.

Full of parched diagonals and framed in a boxy, horizon - chopping Academy ratio, the Oregon vistas here are half Wyeth prairie, half lunar surface, and wholly the kind of transfixing American void into which the director's outsiders lose themselves.

There is white lightning shimmering on the Internet prairie today, as Turok, the Native American comic book hero / dinosaur hunter / video game is apparently headed to theaters in a live - action feature film.

They are also vividly American — with the beautiful yet cruel landscape, the precariousness of life on the untamed prairie, the unending heartache and heartbreak of love and the ways families fail us, save us, and push us into doing things far beyond our capacities.

I'm often amazed by what American people have endured to be Americans including my German ancestors who came to American to escape Hitler's persecution of Jewish people; my husband's Norwegian grandparents who spent a North Dakota winter in a tent on the prairie; my Polish grandfather and his family who were displaced from their homeland by Hitler; and the brave people in my family who have fought in every war on American soil and abroad.

In telling the story of this meteorological catastrophe, the deadliest blizzard ever to hit the prairie states, David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland.

The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.

With more than 700 square miles of wetland and saw grass prairies, Everglades National Park is a magnificent and important habitat for Florida wildlife, including endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile and Florida panther.

Zoom a water flume, canoe a river, hike the prairie, attend an American Indian pow - wow or watch a rodeo.

In another highlight in the Neue Galerie, Geoffrey Farmer replays the hegemonic American version of postwar history as an absurdly bucolic Midwestern pop prairie formed from tens of thousands of illustrations from Life magazine, each on its own «stem».

Dr. Sanjayan follows a unique elephant conservation project in South Africa and tracks the prairies to see how Americans are saving their most - endangered mammal.

Let's do the same for American grasslands / prairies, agricultural lands, forests, and lawns.

WWF helped launch the American Prairie Reserve, an independent, Montana - based land trust focused on bringing bison back to the northern Montana prairie.

Other parts of the world include prairie and steppe parts of North and South America and Central Asia as well as South American and east Australian forests.

A very well known example would be the dust bowl: «The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.»

Preferred habitat: ditches, prairies, swales, depressions + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant in winter + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, well drained + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart + + + + Wildlife value: Seed enjoyed by deer and many species of birds; a nectar and larval food plant for butterflies; attracts these birds: Cardinal, Carolina Chickadee, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Purple Finch, Evening Grosbeak, Blue Jay, Nut Hatches, White - Throated Sparrow, Tufted Titmouse, Rufous - sided Towhee, House Sparrow, Dark - eyed Junco, Mourning Dove, Pine Siskin, Red - winged Black Bird, Scrub Jay, and Red - Bellied and Red - headed Woodpeckers; Silvery Checkerspots and Bordered Patch Butterfly larvae eat leaves.

To the west, 500 Kickapoo Native Americans built wickiups on the prairie that...