Sentences with phrase «as prairie»

The same holds true for more modern home styles, such as the prairie or industrial style.

Rural roadways wind through the countryside as prairie dogs pop up along the way to monitor your progress.

Also known as a prairie hare or white jack, the white - tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) is a generally solitary hare wonderfully designed for speed.

The white - tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii), also known as the prairie hare or simply, white jack, was photographed in Calgary's Queen's Park Cemetery by regular contributor Tony LePrieur.

There is also evidence that ground nesting birds, such as prairie - chickens and sage grouse, may avoid areas with wind turbines.

Some highlights: I can retain my studio space at SFAI for production, I'll continuing my gig as a prairie dog for Art21 Blog, and I'll dance the day away at San Francisco's Pride Parade.

The species prefers areas such as prairie regions with sandy loam soils where it can dig more easily for its prey.

As prairie dogs graze and burrow, they act like giant earthworms, helping to fertilize and aerate hard - packed soils and prevent water erosion, important for maintaining a robust prairie habitat.

Obesity is easily prevented and somewhat difficult to treat as prairie dogs often become «hooked» on the diet which predisposed them to obesity.

In the United States, dachshunds were first used for hunting small game such as prairie dogs.

After the show, I even spotted one girl wearing what could only be described as a prairie dress (with boots to match)-- bringing a bit of the countryside to the city while remaining demurely feminine.

Come in and see for yourself how you can get back as much energy as the prairie dogs at the San Diego Zoo!

[6] As prairie dogs live in areas prone to environmental threats, including hailstorms, blizzards, and floods, as well as drought and prairie fires, burrows provide important protection for them.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

«It is critical to have rigorous evaluations of direct and indirect effects of wind energy facilities on species such as prairie - chickens,» according to grassland wildlife management expert Larkin Powell, who was not involved with the research.

Conover hopes that instead of using non-native invasive landscape plants like Chinese silvergrass, homeowners and horticulturists will use one of this area's beautiful native tall grasses such as prairie dropseed, little bluestem, big bluestem, switch grass or Indian grass because, «restoring the flora to its native species will enhance the biodiversity of native plants and the native animals, including butterflies that depend on them.»

The prairies of the Upper Missouri River Basin are home to iconic species such as the prairie dog and provide critical habitat for many grassland birds, but they are losing ground to food production and, increasingly, to bioenergy crops.

Today, the fritillary is found in less than 5 % of its historic range within the Chicago Wilderness Region, as prairie removal has decimated its habitat.

Park planners and landscape architects held their first open house on Monday to show site plans for four neighborhood parks with features, such as prairie grasses and picnic shelters, that will be added in five to seven years.

As a prairie - raised gal, if you didn't have meat at each meal, you weren't eating BUT I am so happy to be freed of that mindset, and happy to explore and pursue recipes of the plant - based sort.

But as the prairies were tamed and planted, the whooping cranes dwindled steadily.

In other areas of Canada, such as the Prairies and Quebec, seniors amid the rapidly aging baby - boomers and young families faced with an unstable economic future, are relying on the equity of their homes for wealth security.

Already facing challenges as the prairies — and prairie dog colonies (a favorite food item)-- are converted to agricultural and cattle grazing fields, Audubon's climate model now projects a significant shift (only 6 % remaining stable) and reduction (by 84 %) of summer climate space for this species.

Not exact matches

Perhaps by skipping the Prairies in initial launches, car manufacturers also realize there is some truth to the stereotype of Albertans as big truck - and SUV - driving types who are not as interested in fuel - efficient vehicles.

A response to the inability of the Reform party to elect candidates east of the prairies, the letter was first known as the «Harper plan,» although today it is usually referred to as the «firewall» letter.

The Prairies, once hailed as the breadbasket of the world, could find that description gain renewed currency in the years to come.

Alberta is one of the prairie oil - rich provinces which have been drastically impacted by low oil prices as sentiment fell to 58.6, the lowest since June 2013.

Glen, who previously led the prairies region as Senior Vice President and Regional General Manager, has been appointed Executive Vice President, Business Transformation.

Meanwhile, Saskatchewan's S&P rating had remained at Triple - A, which has been widely taken as proof among the Alberta right that Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is the Colossus of the Prairies and all other premiers should bow before him.

Below: Brad Wall, the crumbling Colossus of the Prairies (Photo: Daniel Paquet), and Stephen Harper, the former prime minister of Canada, snapped in Calgary's Blackfoot Diner truck stop restaurant as a bemused customer who only slightly resembles your blogger looks on.

AEC received the regional award for Entrepreneur Support, while Williams was recognized as one of two Prairies winners of the award for Entrepreneur Promotion.

Alberta would still have a significant advantage over our prairie neighbours, as we have vast oil and gas deposits, low personal income tax, and no provincial sales tax.

Products that are sourced 100 per cent from the originating country — livestock born and raised in Canada, for example, or soy beans grown in the Prairies — generally qualify as goods that originate wholly in Canada and are subject to preferential rules of origin within trade agreements.

The Lincoln legend has this «fresh breeze from off the prairie» (as Jane Addams called him) going from splitting rails to the White House, but neglects the many years in between when he was refining his craft as a speaker, writer, and politician.

Rather, Wilder describes it as bound up with creative resourcefulness: The homesteader constantly innovated on the prairie where nothing but dirt and sky were readily available.

On the prairie, Caroline does not admonish her children to stop bickering or pick up toys, but she tells them repeatedly, as a motif running throughout the series, «that they must never be afraid» and «they must be cheerful» — breathtaking advice on the prairie where there is much to fear and plenty that is grim.

Surrounded as we are by blustery buzz and clattery chatter, equipped with our always - tuned - in devices, we're tempted to nostalgia for the hush of past ages and isolated prairie towns.

Another early biographer, Josiah Holland, stressed Lincoln's Christian roots and, according to Ferguson, wound up portraying him as a «prairie St. Francis.»

I feel most spiritually connected to God and to nature when I am creating art, so this book was an extremely rewarding book for me to illustrate, as it is all about animals enduring storms on the prairie each month of the year.

The light seems to come in two varieties, silver or gold, and sometimes the glow makes it feel like the prairies are threatening to take over; the concrete will start falling away and luscious grasses will spring up everywhere, wildflowers and meadow as far as the eye can see.

While at the Santa Rosa Plateau, hikers can get their hearts pumping as they walk along the paths and trails through 9,000 acres of woodlands and prairie.

Recognized as one of the greater Temecula Valley's natural treasures, the Plateau features unique ecosystems like ancient Engelmann oak woodlands and rare bunchgrass prairie.

As a coastal gal, I admit I tend to think of the midwest as a giant flat prairie speckled with Stars Hollow - type towns, expansive ranches, farmland and cowboyAs a coastal gal, I admit I tend to think of the midwest as a giant flat prairie speckled with Stars Hollow - type towns, expansive ranches, farmland and cowboyas a giant flat prairie speckled with Stars Hollow - type towns, expansive ranches, farmland and cowboys.

Just rolling hills with golden prairie grasses as far as the eye can see.

It must have been unsettling for the Huskers, shivering in the cold as they prepared to run onto the field, to hear the terrible prairie howl of the Oklahoma defense welling up from the Sooner locker room.

Bailey's early teammates included Darrell Green and Deion Sanders, who would come to be regarded as the Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln on the Mount Rushmore of shutdown corners, even though the gap between their playing styles was as yawning as the South Dakota prairie: Green liked to get physical, while the ball - hawking, contact - averse Sanders excelled in space.

Despite his prairie eloquence, Jeffrey was a haphazard administrator, and he was succeeded three years ago by 48 - year - old John Erickson who, religious intensity notwithstanding, does not believe so much in hellfire and brimstone as in the bottom line.

The ends are split wide, the two halfbacks and the fullback arrayed close behind the line of scrimmage, and Bork, as isolated as a tree on a bare prairie, takes his station eight to 10 yards back of the center.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

The black - footed ferret, never common, is about to flicker out and die as a species, victim of the poisons that are also wiping out the prairie dogs on which the ferret dines.