Sentences with phrase «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.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

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Switchgrass, a tall prairie grass native to North America, is a much more promising raw material.

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.

Just rolling hills with golden prairie grasses as far as the eye can see.

Crews will begin «staking pathways, and they're going to be at least identifying paths for asphalt so that we can put down sidewalks, and planting prairie grass seed and small trees,» Green said.

The silver in the staples shimmers in the bright light from above, like prairie grass swaying, but the effect of so many together suggests a kind of violence and interjection that is anything but glamorous or serene.

Big bluestem is a dominant prairie grass and major forage grass for cattle.

Also in 2014, the district intends to install a 10 - foot - wide swath of prairie grass along the interior of the fencing to discourage dogs from running along the fence and construct a 31 - car parking lot on four adjacent acres of the 11 - acre site north of the Rock Island Line.

While it makes little sense to use food crops to fuel cars if it drives up food prices, there is the option of producing automotive fuel from fast - growing trees, switchgrass, prairie grass mixtures, or other cellulosic materials, which can be grown on wasteland.

The Land Institute has been conducting trials for 40 years to cross-breed «deep root» traits of perennial prairie grass cousins into annual grains.

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.

Each year for the last decade, students have planted more than 2.5 acres of prairie grasses near the high school, creating a living laboratory they can observe and study.

Blazing fires could burn down existing stands, opening room for colonization by faster - growing prairie grasses or other plants.

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

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.

But farmers might consider switchgrass or other prairie grasses instead if they knew of the crops» strengths, says lead author Douglas Landis, an ecologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

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

Much of the land has been repurposed for agriculture, but there are preserves where prairie grass and flowers have been planted to resemble the original.

Face it: some days, trying to be slightly less boring is all we have, while on other days, we feel like we could make the study of prairie grasses fascinating to fifth - grade kids.

Named in honor of Big Bluestem which is the state prairie grass, the award may include both timeless classics and current titles, as well as books that have appeared on Monarch and Rebecca Caudill lists.

This is also a low - dust litter, and it has natural prairie grasses in it.

The sunset blazes orange, cattle graze on yucca flowers, prairie grasses wave serenely toward the horizon.

For her show at Cross Contemporary Art, she introduces a series of cyanotypes (prints created by sunlight) using rare botanical prairie grass samples and mysterious equine imagery whose reverse shadows are suspended in a sky - blue ground.

It's important to distinguish between truly invasive species and prairie grasses which would be grown on the prairie.

This removes their manure from circulation, which is supposed to deliver vital nutrients and revitalize prairie grasses.

Include a variety of plant heights, from tall nectar - rich blossoms to groundcover and bushy prairie grasses — all provide food for different species, whether directly (though nectar, seeds of leaves) or indirectly (by harbouring insects that predators eat).

Billionaire Koch is a noted libertarian activist and philanthropist from Kansas who has supported research at MIT, research on prairie grasses, and the Americans for Prosperity organization, which has fought the USA PATRIOT Act and the Democrats» health care reform plans.

Females mate with the males and then hide nests in tall prairie grass.

The second is that hotter, drier conditions are preventing new seedlings from gaining a foothold, giving the advantage to more drought - resistant species like prairie grasses.

The economically important big bluestem grass — a dominant prairie grass and a major forage grass for cattle — is predicted to reduce its growth and stature by up to 60 percent percent in the next 75 years because of climate change, according to a study involving Kansas State University researchers.

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

Tuscany is a conservation community with prairie grasses, trails, and green spaces.

The area was landscaped with about 400 trees and more than 30 acres of prairie grass.

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.

Park planners and landscape architects held their first open house on Monday to show site plans for four neighborhood parks with features, such as prairie grasses and picnic shelters, that will be added in five to seven years.

PALATINE — Allen Baker began his tenure with the Salt Creek Rural Park District some 18 years ago, when the Twin Lakes Recreation Area was two retention basins amid the prairie grass.

In partnership with the Fox Valley Park District, students and park district employees planted about 3,000 prairie grasses and wildflowers along a stretch of Waubonsie Lake, which features a walking path behind the school.

Three of the parks will have prairie grass that will buffer the areas from nearby homes, as well as facilitate environmental programming opportunities, park officials said.

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.

Remnants of coke ovens and blast furnaces from the early days of the steel industry, old limestone quarries, prairie grasses and diverse wildlife are among the hidden treasures in the overgrown land set aside for the park, between Lockport and Joliet, according to planners who met this week in Joliet.

Ecologically, prairie restoration aids in conservation of our earth's topsoil, which disappears along with the prairie grasses and plants to make way for new commerce.

They skittishly grazed on tawny dried remnants of prairie grasses that poked up through the thin snow, taking quick bites, looking up for some long moments before stealing another mouthful of food.

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.

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.