Sentences with phrase «greater prairie»

So lift your sights this weekend: from the black - chinned sparrow to the greater prairie - chicken, it's all up in the air here.

Wisely helped lead a four - year study into how Kansas» wildlife, particularly the greater prairie chicken, is affected by wind turbines.

A start - up company named Dovetail Genomics in Santa Cruz, California, produced the highest quality wild bird genome ever (of the greater prairie chicken) in record time at record low cost.

Grouse Park, a breeding facility in Idaho, has built the pens and acquired the greater prairie chickens to provide 40 embryos (eggs) next spring, and we have contracted with Crystal Bioscience in Emeryville, California, to establish the germ - cell resources necessary for genome editing.

A greater prairie chicken (left) and a sharp - tailed grouse (right) show off their stuff.

Related sites Gibson's page Höglund's page Pages on the greater prairie chicken and the sharp - tailed grouse

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

The greater prairie chicken was once abundant across the central Plains, but populations have declined because of habitat loss and human development.

«The research will certainly aid with wind power site guidelines and with the development of mitigation strategies to enhance habitat conditions for the greater prairie chicken.»

Male greater prairie chickens make booming calls to attract females for mating.

The Smoky Hills site — the Meridian Way Wind Power Facility near Concordia — was developed into a wind energy site, which gave researchers the opportunity to observe greater prairie chickens before, during and after wind turbine construction.

«Great prairies stretching out as far as one could see,» wrote one Norwegian immigrant of the image that lured him and his wife and three sons to America in 1876, «with never a stone to gather up, a tree to cut down, or a stump to grub out — the soil so black and rich that as somebody said, you had only «to tickle it with a plow, and it would laugh with a beautiful harvest.»»

«Great prairies stretching out as far as one could see,» wrote one Norwegian immigrant of the image that lured him and his wife and three sons to America in 1876, «with never a stone to gather up, a tree to cut down, or a stump to grub out — the soil so black and rich that as somebody said, you had only «to tickle it with...

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If there is one region where Harper's successor had no great need for provincial reinforcements it is the Prairies in general, and Alberta in particular.

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.

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.

Elmhurst — The Park District, in a move it said will preserve a section of prairie that is a «jewel,» has announced a plan for restoration of the Great Western Prairie along the Illinois Prairie Path from Spring Road to Salt Creek.

Working on a steamboat crossing the Great Lakes and transporting pioneers from the East to their new homes in the West, Joseph Naper heard their tales of the vast, beautiful, unsettled prairie lands.

Named after native Illinois prairie animals, these groups are a great way to share your love of nature, and support innovative educational programs and local conservation work at the same time.

On the opposite side of the globe from Bale, on North America's Great Plains, Rocke's lab is testing an oral vaccine to protect prairie dogs and endangered ferrets from plague.

Load up on adrenaline, or cool down with oxytocin About 20 years ago, neuroendocrinologist Sue Carter began examining the brains of prairie voles to understand why the small rodent indigenous to the midwestern plains of the United States is one of the natural world's great romantics.

Saving plague - ridden prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) is an indirect way to protect the real target: an endangered predator, black - footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) of the Great Plains.

She has vivid memories of the celebrations when soldiers returned home from World War I; of big picnics on her family's farm on the windswept prairies; of gas rationing during the second world war, when she was a young mother with five kids; and of traveling across Europe, North Africa and the U.S., and even diving in the Great Barrier Reef during a yearlong stint in Australia after she retired.

The lesser prairie - chicken has experienced widespread declines in abundance and distribution, with some estimates suggesting greater than a 90 percent decrease of the population.

It also is commonly used in grassland restoration of prairies across several million acres in the Great Plains region.

The same method might be used for the black - tailed prairie dog — removed from the endangered species list but still declining on the Great Plains and often infected by fleas with plague bacteria, Knutie says.

The researchers working on the Great Prairie project have managed to compile about 1.8 trillion bases of DNA data, but Jansson thinks those data describe only a fraction of the microbial communities in prairie soil, given that the soil contains between 1 billion and 10 billion individual cells per gram.

Comparisons Of the two main species of prairie dogs, the black - tailed (C. ludovicianus) has a black - tipped tail and is much more widespread, occurring sparsely over the Great Plains and throughout the Great Basin.

By influencing early social experience in prairie voles, researchers hope to gain greater insight into what aspects of early social experience drive diversity in adult social behavior.

The various native plants of the Great Plains make up the prairie dog's primary diet, comprising all kinds of grasses, roots, weeds, forbs and blossoms.

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

Andean flamingo Ashy storm petrel Bald eagle Bicknell's thrush Black - backed woodpecker Black - breasted puffleg Black - capped petrel Blue - billed curassow Brown - banded antpitta Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl California condor California spotted owl Cape Sable seaside sparrow Cauca guan Chatham petrel Chilean woodstar Coastal California gnatcatcher Desert nesting bald eagle Eastern brown pelican Esmeraldas woodstar Fiji petrel Galápagos petrel Hawaiian petrel Heinroth's shearwater «I «iwi Inyo California towhee Kittlitz's murrelet Least Bell's vireo Lesser prairie chicken Magenta petrel Marbled murrelet Medium tree finch Mexican spotted owl Mono Basin area greater sage grouse Newell's shearwater Northern goshawk Northern spotted owl Okinawa woodpecker Penguins Piping plover Queen Charlotte goshawk Rota bridled white - eye Southwestern willow flycatcher Spectacled eider St. Lucia forest thrush Steller's eider Tricolored blackbird Western burrowing owl Western gull - billed tern Western snowy plover White - tailed ptarmigan Xantus's murrelet Yellow - billed cuckoo Yellow - billed loon

Yes, I see the prairie reference but this is still a great layered look for Fall.

Your white prairie skirt would even be great in the winter with a chunky fisherman's sweater, don't you think?!

I love the atmosphere of the film, whether it's the prairies roamed by great Buffalo herds, or the smokey and vibrant air of the anything - can - happen saloons.

Dourif plays a man riding back to Jacksonville Florida to see his wife (by horse across the prairies — the time period is likely late 1800s) when he encounters Jones after bunking down for the night in the great wide open.

Petty plays the unforgiving tensions between the settlers and the native tribes with palpable animosity, the distrust so great that their fragile truce snaps before they even take on the burrowers, the underground creatures that have been hunting on the prairie.

From the prairie lands of the east to the black hills of the west, technology is the great equalizer among schools in South Dakota.

Great Plains Publications Ltd. is an independent publisher in Winnipeg committed to bringing you the very best books from the Prairies, a region we believe has an abundance of quality writers.

A quarter - century after appearing on the Prairies publishing scene in Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications is seeing changes in its leadership.

To the west is the Great Plains region, filled with scenic buttes, rolling prairies and herds of roaming bison.

It's a city surrounded by rolling prairies and forests, making it a great place to live for those who love the outdoors.

Venture in to the prairies east of the Rocky mountains and enjoy the great opportunity to volunteer abroad with native Canadian wildlife.

The big runs of autumn, the «tuna fever,» the great herds of fish thundering across the blue prairies as they rounded Montauk, that's all gone.

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.

Belote said that the very tops of the western mountains and the central Great Plains and prairies in the United States are «particularly vulnerable... mostly because species that are accustomed to living in high alpine environments can't typically move any further upslope to track warming climate conditions.

The DU - led prairie preservation effort is a primary example of how collaborations of this nature can accomplish a great deal by everyone doing their part to reach mutually beneficial goals.

While the Conservancy has more than 20 years of experience reintroducing bison throughout the Great Plains of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nebraska, this is the first time we will reintroduce wild bison to native Illinois prairie.

The problem is greatest in the Prairies.

The age of pastoral days on the prairie may be long gone, but you can still find an eminently peaceful weekend at a resort on Iowa's Great Lakes.