Sentences with phrase «tall grass prairies»

The tall grass prairies, dusty deserts and rugged romance of the Old West are the inspiration behind one of this season's hottest home decorating trends.

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.

Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie.

And no, it doesn't look like the orginal Palouse prairie any more than Iowa looks like the original tall grass prairie.

For example, the natural tall grass prairie may well be more productive than even monoculture corn or switchgrass.

The tall grass prairie is a beautiful place.

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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.»

These quail used to be fairly common in the state, but they depend on tall - grass prairies as habitat.

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.

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.

-- Marc Chagall Among the tall grasses, windswept prairies and lines of spindly Osage orange trees on the campus of Governors State University rise giant works of steel,...

They envision vast fields of switchgrass, a tall prairie grass, grown without water on vacant land, and harvested for fuel.

Opponents of the Cape Wind project — a plan to build several 417 - foot - high turbines off the coast of Cape Cod — as well as projects planned for the tall - grass prairies in Kansas and the ridgetops of Vermont and New Hampshire, cite aesthetics as one of the major drawbacks of wind power.

Warming of a tall - grass prairie showed increased plant growth that supported enhanced soil fungal success (Zhang et al., 2005).

Increased rainfall variability was more significant than rainfall amount for tall - grass prairie productivity (Fay et al., 2000, 2002), with a 50 % increase in dry - spell duration causing 10 % reduction in NPP (Fay et al., 2003) and a 13 % reduction in soil respiration (Harper et al., 2005).