Sentences with word «tamarisk»

A seemingly unending thicket of tall, shrubby tamarisk trees parallels the ditch.

One shall be made of cedar, one of tamarisk, etc., etc..

Levi Jamison nets and counts tamarisk beetles in New Mexico.

Diorhabda carinulata, the northern tamarisk leaf beetle, feeds on the leaves of Tamarix.

Other honey flavors, such as tamarisk or buckwheat, are dark colored honey with a robust and earthy taste.

These Old World beetles were imported and released in the early 2000s as a biological control for tamarisk, a once - beloved Eurasian tree that now monopolizes vast stretches of western waterways.

2 ounce brie cheese 12 sweet potato chips 4 teaspoons tamarisk or buckwheat honey Chives (optional), chopped

Creeping in on Flycatchers Controlling tamarisk is a herculean task.

Along the banks, the roots of weedy tamarisk shrubs guzzle even more water, and sedges grow in depressions — a sign of moisture pooling where it isn't needed.

«What's problematic is that when it grows aggressively, it dramatically changes the landscape in ways that negatively affect native fauna and flora,» says University of Denver ecologist Anna Sher, who studies tamarisk and riparian restoration.

As we engineered the rivers, tamarisk increasingly had the upper hand.

But repeated attacks year after year have reduced tamarisk cover by up to 50 to 90 percent in some places.

The pretty, wispy tamarisk with its scalelike leaves and delicate white or pink flowers is thought to have arrived in North America as a decorative plant sometime in the early 1800s.

When they pupate into adults, they fly off to find fresh, green tamarisk.

And the beetles are doing their jobs, munching away at tamarisk leaves — their only food — and leaving swaths of brown, defoliated trees in their wake.

Dead tamarisk trees along the Colorado River and other western waterways.

Hussey, A.M.; Kimball, B.A.; Friedman, J.M. (2011) Assessment of tannin variation in tamarisk foliage across a latitudinal gradient.

In the canyon depths, willows and invasive tamarisks crowd each other out for space on the stream banks as the staccato trill of a canyon wren's song echoes off the rocky walls.

The American landscape is a catalogue of noxious weeds and invasive pests that have disrupted native ecosystems: Japanese kudzu in the South, African tamarisk in the Southwest, Amazonian water hyacinth and Burmese pythons spreading through the Everglades, Russian zebra mussels choking the Great Lakes, Asian carp invading the Mississippi River system, and European brown rats everywhere.

The hotel is not alone in the oasis, a bristling tuft of olive, pomegranate, and tamarisk trees zapped here and there with pink and white oleander.

Tamarix — known commonly as tamarisk or salt cedar — was introduced to the United States as an ornamental plant in the mid-1800s.

In the manna, we have a miraculous bread, not some secretion of the tamarisk tree (as I was taught for years).

In gratitude for his new blessed circumstances, «Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer - sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

But they turned away (from Allah), and We sent against them the Flood (released) from the dams, and We converted their two garden (rows) into «gardens» producing bitter fruit, and tamarisks, and some few (stunted) Lote - trees.

Since I had some tamarisk (and buckwheat) honey on hand, I wanted to make an easy appetizer that showcases the honey.

The tamarisk plant has been stealing water from other and increasing fire risk, so its Asian predator has been introduced to control it in Southwest

Jamison, a biologist now with the Colorado Plateau Research Station at Northern Arizona University, has long tracked the tamarisk leaf beetle through the Southwest.

In response, some native birds — like the Southwestern willow flycatcher, which loves dense shrubs along desert waterways — turned to tamarisk trees to make their nests.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture began searching for a tamarisk biocontrol in the mid-1980s.

Tamarisk and the tamarisk beetle are now permanent features of our western waterways, says Ben Bloodworth, who coordinates beetle - monitoring programs across the western U.S. and Mexico for the nonprofit Tamarisk Coalition.

And for vast swaths of western rivers, tamarisks are now the only tree.

Ecologists worried the beetles would destroy the tamarisks that this unique bird had come to rely on for nesting.

But tamarisk isn't quite the monster it's been made out to be.

By 2001, they'd launched the tamarisk beetle program, releasing the insects at 10 different sites with the caveat that no releases would be permitted within 200 miles of a known flycatcher nest.

The genus Tamarix, known as tamarisk or (US) saltcedar, comprises about 50 - 60 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees growing to 1 - 15 m in height and forming dense thickets, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa.

Then away they stole, through the dark gardens, among the tamarisks and date palms, toward the quarters where the boy lay at rest.

Those willing to endure a rugged four - hour drive over unpaved Saharan roads and through blinding salt flats will be rewarded with Ksar Ghilane, an otherworldly camp on 25 acres of olive, pomegranate, and tamarisk trees.

Then they compared predicted changes in precipitation and temperature with the most hospitable conditions for five of the West's most obnoxious noxious plants: cheatgrass, spotted knapweed, yellow starthistle, tamarisk and leafy spurge.