Sentences with phrase «prairie land in»

A very well known example would be the dust bowl: «The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.»

Not exact matches

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.

Books set in the prairies are my one weakness, and this one is written from the perspective of a young boy, Brian O'Connal, growing up right on the edge of the land.

Our highly selected, Certified Gluten - Free, whole grain rolled oats are grown and harvested in the fertile lands of Aspen parkland biome, between prairie and the boreal forest that covers the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

There were wide areas dotted with mesquite and huisache, open, grassy prairies, knolls covered with groves of gnarled live oak trees, shallow depressions which are flooded in times of rain and dense thickets covering the bottom land along the river.

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.

«Local governments have been unable to come up with enough money to preserve prairies, forests and wetlands,» Ryan told a crowd of about 200 who showed up Wednesday in Volunteer Park to watch Ryan's helicopter land.

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.

But a prairie plant in the Midwest, where many miles of land have a similar temperature, might have to travel much farther to remain in its preferred habitat.

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.

Findings reported in today's Science linking bison grazing to plant diversity in a Kansas tallgrass prairie offer hope to land managers trying to preserve the last remnants of native U.S. grasslands.

So, if you can stand the cold winters, the prairies just might be the place where you land your next job in the biotech industry.

That finding could, for example, support the idea of using more diverse seed mixes in prairie restoration projects, or keeping a prairie grassland instead of turning it into marginal agricultural land.

Large - scale landscape change — loss of wildflower - rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.

Bicycling magazine named this one if its 10 best car - free trails in the country, calling it a «movable feast for the eyes as you pass ponderosa pine forests, prairie lands, rugged mountain terrain, grazing cattle, swimmable creeks, and rocky canyons.»

Prairie Yoga is based in what was once native Illinois prairie land.

The group bought the land in order to restore it to its natural habitat, prairie wetlands.

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

The land is newly divided by iron rail lines, the prairie dotted with sod huts, and it is into this country that a man goes off alone, in pursuit of a need he can barely admit even to himself.

A mystery winds its way through these pages, as Thisbe Nissen explores marriage, lust, midlife crises and motherhood, crafting complex portraits not only of her characters but also of the land they inhabit; and, one thing is clear, this novel was written in praise of the prairie itself.»

The land of plains and prairie, Kansas is the nation's leading state in growth of wheat.

Park lands are prime habitat for prairie falcons, and are a release site for California condors that have been hatched in captivity.

Being land locked in Toronto my spirit yearns for the open skies of the Canadian prairies where woodlands mingled with grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see.

In 1887 the government first started to reserve subsurface rights from land grants in the prairie provinces, so Indian reserves which had been surveyed before then kept the subsurface rights, as did early homesteaderIn 1887 the government first started to reserve subsurface rights from land grants in the prairie provinces, so Indian reserves which had been surveyed before then kept the subsurface rights, as did early homesteaderin the prairie provinces, so Indian reserves which had been surveyed before then kept the subsurface rights, as did early homesteaders.

12 November 2013 WARSAW Poland India has a Constitution; Germany has a Grundgesetz; and the Terrestrial Carbon Accounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, and prairies.

Loggers on the Ottawa River or in the British Columbia wilderness, western settlers living off of and clearing prairie land to prepare it for farming, gold prospectors in the Klondike, oil sands pioneers punching holes in the boreal forest — all of them became intimate with Canadian nature even as they transformed it from ecology to commodity.

In one notable scandal, the Nature Conservancy raised millions from well - intentioned donors to buy land to help protect a threatened species, the Attwater's prairie chicken, from extinction.

Every bit the pioneers that their forbearers were 200 years ago when they first landed on the prairie, I suspect their own transformation will be even more remarkable than the one in store for their town.

Now, armed with rapidly expanding knowledge about carbon sequestration in soils, researchers are studying how land restoration programs in places like the former North American prairie, the North China Plain, and even the parched interior of Australia might help put carbon back into the soil...

The Conservancy saw these islands of untouched prairie as a unique opportunity to restore one of Illinois» most important habitats, so in 1986, we made our first land purchase of 400 acres.

The Prairie Restoration Project is the company's biggest responsibility; at the main office, SECURA has set aside two acres of land to reestablish the prairie land to provide an ecosystem for the plants and animals in the area.

Located in the heart of the United States, Nebraska's terrain is largely treeless prairie land.