Sentences with phrase «of native prairie grasses»

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.

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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...

Hopping aboard a golf cart to give a recent visitor a tour of the newly renovated course, Wilmette Park District Executive Director Steve Wilson pointed out a few of what he considers to be the most interesting new features of the course, such as a winding bioswale framed by native plantings including prairie grasses.

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.

The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest.

Switchgrass and prairie cordgrass, both native perennial grasses grown for biomass, come out of dormancy when the soil warms up for a week or more, usually in April.

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.»

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

Indeed, the alarming rate — almost 0.5 meters a year — at which the invasive grass Sorghum halepense has invaded the tallgrass prairie, formerly dominated by the native little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), over the last 25 years, and the complete dominance of that invasive was the ideal situation in which Rout could test her ideas.

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.

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.

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.

Collaborative efforts to restore a portion of the native tall - grass prairie in Iowa are detailed in a distinguished prose narrative and glorious full - color photographs.

Final project benefits are estimated to perpetually conserve 5,000 - 6,000 acres of native mixed - grass prairie.

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

In some of these cases, restoring native prairie grasses would be more effective.

With their wallowing and grazing, bison provide natural disturbances to the landscape that spread native seeds, aerate the soil, and help maintain the natural balance of prairie grasses and flowers.