Sentences with phrase «saw grass prairies»

With more than 700 square miles of wetland and saw grass prairies, Everglades National Park is a magnificent and important habitat for Florida wildlife, including endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile and Florida panther.

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The light seems to come in two varieties, silver or gold, and sometimes the glow makes it feel like the prairies are threatening to take over; the concrete will start falling away and luscious grasses will spring up everywhere, wildflowers and meadow as far as the eye can see.

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

He stopped at the edge of a Midwestern prairie, a thicket of tall flowers and grasses more frightening to farmers than any horror movie madman lurking in a barn with a chain saw.

In 1878, the geologist John Wesley Powell noted the transformation observed as he crossed a north - south band of terrain in the U.S. «On the east, luxuriant growth of grass is seen, and the gaudy flowers of the order Compositae make the prairie landscape beautiful.

The researchers are particularly interested in seeing how the prairie grass stands sustain harvest — in other words, if they will need to be burned down less or if certain parts of the stand will only need to be harvested every year in rotation.