Sentences with word «prairie»

After more than 25 years of studying the calls of prairie dog in the field, one researcher managed to decode just what these animals are saying.

A multi-year, CSU - led study that involved trapping and testing thousands of prairie dogs across the Pawnee National Grassland, and tens of thousands of their plague - carrying fleas, was conducted by CSU biologists Daniel Salkeld and Michael Antolin, and is published Jan. 13 in BioScience.

The team chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because they are one of the few species that mate for life.

Our source for bison products comes from northern Wisconsin where the animals are grazed on prairie grass with NO chemicals, hormones, or grains - EVER!

Much of the oxytocin research to date has been done on prairie voles, monogamous rodents that will release oxytocin only when touching a family member, Pollak says.

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.

Photographer Danny Singer has explored the American and Canadian prairie from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to the plains of Texas, photographing the kinds of towns most travelers overlook in their rush to get from one place to the next.

Co-sponsored the «Lesser Prairie Chicken Voluntary Recovery Act of 2015,» or H.R. 659, which would remove Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken as threatened until at least 2020.

Most public health officials believe the chance of contracting plague from prairie dog fleas is very low, but flea - borne disease can wipe out a colony.

She now lives in the Canadian prairies with her Irish husband and two children and spends most of her time complaining about the weather.

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.

The team is conducting follow - up studies to test mitigation strategies that may improve habitat conditions for prairie chickens.

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

Underground, an extensive root system of prairie plants helps to filter pollutants when rainwater percolates through the soil.

John Leblanc and his 14 year old daughter Olivia drove it across prairies and over the Rockies.

My name is Brittany and I am a 25 - year - old introvert, part - time independent traveler, healthy eater, and amateur photographer living simply near a small town in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba.

«Including the lesser prairie chicken on the endangered species list will diminish private land owners» control over their own property and threaten agriculture and energy jobs,» he explained.

Surrounded by prairie lands and corn fields, Des Moines is like a civilized oasis in Iowa's rural landscape.

Hey, that sounds sort of like prairie voles and meadow voles.

They defy the norms of more owly owls by hunting on the ground by daylight, and of course, the burrowing part — they live underground, often times in borrowed burrows previously occupied by prairie dogs.

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These were the kinds of questions that started percolating for Marnie Rout (University of North Texas Health Science Center) after she drove by a remnant tallgrass prairie in North Central Texas as a beginning graduate student.

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The views of the national park and its surrounding prairies at the start of wildflower season are totally worth it, though.

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

At that time she lived in the same Canadian prairie town that she grew up in.

Ironically, it wasn't the mountain roads Magnus found most arduous, but the open prairies where winds «drained so much out of each rider.»

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Nathan Halpern's music invites a contemplative mood, while Joshua James Richards» cinematography contrasts the inviting, wide - open prairie with the crowded trailer interior.

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Participants will help convert part of an old meadow into a rare native Illinois prairie landscape.

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There was an off - the - shoulder peasant blouse with prairie style skirt that I wore to a dance in high school and there were the floral midi - length skirts and vests that I wore in college.

Born in the western prairie province of Saskatchewan in 1982, Salgado received a Bachelor degree at the University of British Columbia (2005) and a Masters degree at Chelsea College of Art (2009).

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The longest rail - trial in Kansas, this 117 - mile route passes through five counties while crisscrossing the Flint Hills — one of the last remaining tall grass prairie ecosystems in the world.

Milkweed seed for the project has been donated by several amazing organizations, including the largest tallgrass prairie restoration project, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farms.

The story opens in 1871, as Danish immigrant Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) welcomes his wife (Nanna Oland Fabricius) and young son to the American prairie where he has worked for seven years.

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Oxytocin helps keep female prairie voles bonded with their partners.

For Gunnison's and white - tailed prairie dogs, however, polyandrous females were less likely than monandrous females to survive until the next mating season.

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School children were sent into prairie fields to gather seeds from the....

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

Melissa A. Alink makes sustainable, inexpensive, prairie home living easy and accessible in her new book, Little House Living.

They saw that when male prairie voles interacted with their special lady vole, neuronal activity in the nucleus accumbens jumped 20 % compared with when they interacted with a random female.

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