Sentences with phrase «graze on vegetation»
Among other attributes, the horses have the ability to locate and graze on vegetation hidden deep under snow mounds.
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«The largest agricultural land use is grazing of native vegetation at 45pc with 90pc occurring on leasehold land.
However, introduced Reindeer used to graze large regions, and Norway rats and house mice, also introduced, have until recently preyed on birds, insects and eaten vegetation.
They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.
The vegetation on every island is in the process of recovering from grazing, farming, military use, and the introduction of exotic species.
It seems the deer had grazed the banks of the streams and destroyed the natural vegetation on the banks, allowing for a buildup of silt and choking many of them to a point where their diminished flow could not support a healthy fish stock.
By crowding the animals into larger groups, the concept of mob grazing complements holistic, planned grazing — creating an intense, temporary impact on the soil in terms of trimming vegetation and pounding in fertilizer (aka poop), before moving on and letting the pasture recover.
Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie.
Livestock grazing and fire suppression effects, for example, have arguably had minimal effects on changes in vegetation and fuel dynamics in many shrublands (e.g., southern California chaparral) or in higher elevation spruce - fir forests.
That is very clever, since humans have had impact on the climate since sheep over grazed in the Middle East and farmers started diverting water and changing vegetation and land use.
If we stopped letting cattle graze on federal land and allowed the vegetation there to naturally regrow, we'd save on emissions from lowered beef production and increase the capacity of the land to serve as a carbon sink.