Sentences with word «tussock»

After lunch sweeping vistas of tussock lands and mountains open up ahead.

Carey, J.C., T. Parker, N. Fetcher, J. Tang, Biogenic silica accumulation varies across tussock tundra plant functional type, Functional Ecology.

I'm a writer who loves the sea, and wide horizons, the greenness of coastal plains and the openness of moors, and high country tussock land, all the skin and bones of our lovely planet.

The Lindis Pass is a barren, beautiful landscape with tussock grass that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Travel back down the valley along the shores of Lake Pukaki, through Twizel (the town of trees) before arriving at your destination, Omarama, nestled in the velvet type tussock covered hills of the Lindis range.

Biogenic silica accumulation varies across tussock tundra plant functional type.

Truly one of the world's great scenic train trips through the dramatic contrast of dry beech forests and tussock land on one side of the Alps and lush green landscapes on the other.

Eighteen per cent of this area consists of chenopod shrublands, native tussock grasslands, and woodlands and shrublands that are dominated by mulga (Acacia aneura) in eastern Australia, within the 200 to 500 mm annual rainfall zone.

Barren, brown and billowing aptly describe the impressive sight of tussocks as this route departs Te Anau and heads towards Queenstown; Trout fishing rivers and high country scenery are also features of the drive to Queenstown.

And there's a vocal group of those who are concerned about introducing a wide swath of tussock moths into the environment.

The track has been carefully crafted to show walkers all the very best features of Fiordland, from the prolific bird life and tussock high country, to the huge mountain ranges and vast glacier - carved valleys.

I think of another boy I knew up north, far above the Arctic Circle, where mountains meet the tundra like the ocean at home, with tussocks like waves breaking on our feet.

The valley was formed by an ancient glacier, and is now home to rivers, lakes, tussock flats and beech forests, all surrounded by precipitous mountains.

Travel back down the valley along the shores of Lake Pukaki, through Twizel, the town of trees, before arriving at your destination, Omarama, nestled in the velvety tussock covered hills of the Lindis Range.

The road then joins the Mararoa River, cruising through tussock and grazing land to reach Flaxy Creek Junction, and soon after Te Anau, the South Island's largest lake, flanked by the brooding Murchison ranges.

A leisurely breakfast in this most idyllic site, before hiking out through beech forest and across tussock basins to the road.

You'll hike through Jurassic beech forests and shrublands until you break the treeline, where the trail opens into the rugged tussock alpine.

The dominant sedge, Eriophorum vaginatum in the area forms tussocks, alongside the shrubby and delicious bog bilberry, Vaccinium uliginosum, and several moss species.

For years now a number of scientists have promoted the idea of using the cocaine tussock moth to do the dirty work.

At any rate, you rate them by height from hillock, through hummock which gathers vegetation along the way, down to a mere grassy tussock, which seems to be rather like the famous tuffet (small tuft) on which Little Miss Muffet rested.

Tussock paint roller, # 20; wall applicator (used with roller), # 12; both The Painted House

Forest & Bird gives nature a voice, speaking for all our threatened species and fragile places - from endangered Maui's dolphins to high - country tussock - lands.

Barren, brown and billowing aptly describe the impressive sight of tussocks as this route heads towards Te Anau — choose between the sealed road on SH94 and SH6 or the gravel track to the Mavora Lakes and connecting road to Kinloch (permission and 4WD required).

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that plants in northern Alaska's tussock tundra took up nitrate at comparable rates to vegetation in nitrate - rich ecosystems.

The coastal area offers the natural history visitors interested either mangroves or a handsome stock of maple trees and cypresses, surrounded by areas of tussock.

18,519), where pine trees stand all over town and tussocks of soft green grass tumble right on down to the foot of Main Street.

Swamp - loving plants, like sedges and tussocks, are the fossil survivors, not delicate leaves from hardwood trees.

The tussock tundra covers a large part of northern Alaska and is currently composed of sedges, herbaceous ground cover, and woody shrubs (about a third coverage for each).

The bronzed grasslands were a stark contrast to the green jungle all around, and among the tussocks grew groves of tree ferns, whose lacy fronds waved above my head.

Downslope, the tussock grassland ended abruptly at a stunted, mossy forest.

I loved the views when we were walking over the boardwalk between the tussock, with Mount Cook in front of us.

If weather and sea conditions are suitable, energetic expeditioners are able to climb to the South West Cape Shy Albatross colony where Gibson's Wandering Albatross nest amongst the tussocks above the colony.

The beginning of the track was laid in the wetlands and tussock - covered flat with jagged mountains on all sides.

The road climbs over the tussock country of the Crown Range with expansive views of the Gibbston Valley.

Then there's a run of - ocks, the result of human work: tussock, hillock, hummock and the like.

(There appears to be something of an affection in English for «t» words for hills: in addition to tuft, tuffet, tussock, there are tor, tumulus, tump...)