Sentences with phrase «native prairie»

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

The use of native prairie grasses is meant to avoid some of the other risks associated with biofuels such as reduced diversity of local animal life and displacing food crops with fuel crops.

Volunteers will use rakes to score the soil and then sprinkle seeds from native prairie plant species.

The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.

«These are the kinds of plants typically found in native prairie, roadsides, in the middle of farms.

The community pastures are some of the largest remnants of native prairie still existing.

There are a number of conditions for pasture land purchases including each pasture must be maintained in each block, sales will be based on market value, native prairie lands will be subject to no - break / no - drain conservation easements and federal Species at Risk Act will be enforced.

The parkland on the east bank of the Fox River next to Clark Island will get a new playground, a storm - water detention basin planted with native prairie flowers and grasses, four lights with timers for the baseball field and a 10,000 - square - foot BMX park designed by 18 Batavia teens.

«Shrimp farms are eating up mangroves with an appetite akin to that of terrestrial farming, which consumed native prairies and forest.

Durso and her team examined native prairie soils that had little human impact and no animal grazing during the past 20 years.

The North American native prairie grass Panicum virgatum L. (switchgrass) is a promising bioenergy feedstock.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

«DU, with assistance from partners, developed a methodology to measure carbon captured and stored by native prairie and is working to develop a carbon credit opportunity to provide landowners an extra incentive to maintain the grasslands and wetlands, instead of converting the land to crop production.»

Unfortunately, pressures to convert native prairie are intensifying with high commodity prices.

For biofuels, you might think about recent research (from University of Minnesota, IIRC) showing that a mixed native prairie produces more total biomass than any monoculture.

The groups say the State Department and the Fish and Wildlife Service have quietly allowed TransCanada to do the work, including mowing a corridor of native prairie grasslands in Nebraska's ecologically sensitive Sand Hills region.

Aquascape's head office had «the largest sloping green roof in North America, planted with native prairie grass and flowers and a complete irrigation system.»

A bioenergy field trial in Wisconsin is evaluating how switchgrass, Miscanthus, corn stover, poplar trees, and native prairie grasses stack up against each other.

In a recent column in the Journal of Family Ministry, theologian Wendy Wright recounts shopping for florists for the wedding of her daughter, who wanted bouquets of gladiolas and native prairie grasses.

Kristin Violante, the superintendent of parks and recreation, said plans call for dredging the pond and planting native prairie grasses and flowers around the...

Although the district, which also serves portions of Rolling Meadows and Arlington Heights, can do little to keep the birds away, it does plan to take measures to bring back the native prairie grass and shrubs it planted on the island.

Russell Johnson, an ecologist and member of the northwest suburban chapter of the National Audubon Society, said his organization understands the opponents» concerns about the property but supports the concept of restoring the land to a native prairie habitat.

The Park District wants to turn the property into a native prairie woodland to be used for environmental education.

She was particularly struck by the obvious and drastic changes the native prairie was undergoing due to the invasion of an exotic grass.

«On one side was the native prairie, the other side had this towering monoculture of invasive Sorghum.

But even a native prairie grass needs a helping hand from scientists and farmers to deliver the yields necessary to help ethanol become a viable alternative to petroleum - derived gasoline, Vogel argues.

The sequenced samples revealed that the native prairie dirt contained a different mix of microbes from the farmed soil, which may in part be due to fertilizers that are used during farming.

Both plants have shallow roots and are green for only part of the year, unlike the native prairie grasses that once colonized the corn belt.

A previous Iowa State study showed that converting just 10 percent of farmland back to native prairie grass could reduce nitrogen and phosphorous runoff by nearly 90 percent.

Some native prairie grasses have roots that are up to a mile deep and their decomposition provides the rich, deep, fertile soil for plant growth.

I live in the country in a Civil War - era farmhouse, with acres of restored wetlands and native prairie grasses.

Habitat associations include: coniferous forests, mixed meso - phytic forests, deserts, native prairies, riparian communities, active agricultural areas, and coastal habitat types.

More importantly, judging from the pictures it looks as though many of the species included on the rooftop are native prairie grasses.

Based on a decade of research at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, a 2200 - hectare experimental ecological reserve operated by the University of Minnesota, Tilman said that diverse mixtures of plants that mimic the native prairie ecosystem are a better source of biofuels than corn ethanol or soybean biodiesel.