Settling in South Dakota, Martin Eden initially focuses on transforming the prairie into productive farmland. |
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Two men in safari suits would vroom their jeep onto the savannah or the prairie. |
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Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer. |
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During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri. |
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This unique region also hosts an impressive array of other wildlife, including blacktail prairie dogs, gray foxes, and piglike javelinas. |
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The central feature of the refuge, however, is the diversity and abundance of waterfowl and prairie birds. |
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It also provides breathing room for raptors such as prairie falcons, golden eagles, and red-tailed hawks. |
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Today Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, home to pronghorns and prairie dogs, coyotes and rattlesnakes, is nearly a desert. |
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The native prairie grasslands and alfalfa provide food and shelter for these birds. |
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These aliens created too much shade for prairie plants that need full sunlight to survive. |
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However, there are salads, drinks and relishes for meat that also incorporate this prairie fruit. |
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Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese. |
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A whole new world of gardening awaits you when you go searching for water lettuce, water hyacinths, lilies and prairie grass. |
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By using this procedure, prairie voles typically scent mark by depositing sebum from anogenital glands and rarely urinate or defecate. |
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Testing of free-ranging greater and Attwater's prairie chickens for reticuloendotheliosis is recommended prior to translocation or release. |
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Support columns for the bridge will feature textured cast stone, with a cast concrete inset stamped with decorative patterns of prairie grasses. |
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A road sign slowly approached informing them of the name of the next prairie town, 25 kilometres away. |
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In contrast, there is relatively little published literature on effects of deer browsing on prairie plants. |
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In Iowa City, hundreds of homes are buried in what was rolling prairie just a few days ago, but is now a mucky lagoon. |
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A constant supply of cold, oxygen-deficient water from artesian springs maintains the glacial-like characteristics of prairie fens. |
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This led to the evolution of long-legged running animals adapted to life on the savanna and prairie. |
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A few lights blinked out across the desert-like prairie, a land of strong, ruddy dawns and drawn, bluish-yellow evenings. |
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Stories of an encounter with the early Lincoln bestowed a special cachet, as if one had rubbed shoulders with a rusticated, prairie Solomon. |
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A faintly rutted road, wide enough to allow a team of horses, holds off the encroaching prairie. |
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It's also essential habitat for the imperiled sage grouse, mountain plover and black-tailed prairie dog. |
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Today, black-tailed prairie dogs are limited to less than 1 percent of their historic range. |
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Arapaho Prairie represents typical upland dry sandhills prairie, with steep slopes grading into undulating dunes and flat valleys. |
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Volunteers, environmental groups, and government agencies are now restoring its 19,000 acres of prairie, woodlands, savannas, and wetlands. |
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The transition into the moist prairie is heralded by scattered scouring rushes. |
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The rest is designated as prairie and marshland, winding throughout the development and sometimes right up to back porches. |
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The prairie barrens occur on limestone with shallow clayey soils that are well-drained. |
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Although it will nest at high elevations, the Mountain Bluebird is at home in a prairie coulee as it is in a high alpine meadow. |
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A variety of prairie fauna can also be found and some include the wild onion, milkweed, beardtongue, and the prairie rose. |
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The streets are sited so that storm water runs sequentially through grass swales, then through prairie, and then to the wetlands. |
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One goal of the project was to bring the site back to its Midwestern prairie condition, partly for the purpose of water conservation. |
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We left a tract home on the edge of the prairie for a brick duplex, with a thatch roof and a tulip garden, on a cobblestone street. |
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I tend to grow them with grasses and similar prairie plants such as silphium, tradescantias, helleniums and asters. |
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The majority of these prairie species were found in the three Utility Corridors that transected the other communities. |
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Meanwhile, prairie dog colonies are destroyed, and prairie dogs are trapped or frozen to feed captive ferrets in an endless cycle of failure. |
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But as for the cons, the treelessness is only in some places and that's because this is part of the prairie states. |
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We will then observe the use of the systems in a prairie plot where the subjects attempt to identify all PrairieWatch bioindicators. |
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The samples from within each prairie were combined and mixed together for analysis. |
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The prairie mole cricket, Gryllotalpa major, is the largest North American cricket. |
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The first monkeypox outbreak occurred in the United States in June 2003 when several people were sickened by infected pet prairie dogs. |
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A turkey vulture is a slow pinwheel in the sky, a marker above Cather's prairie. |
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I used to cut softwood from shelterbelts on prairie farms but when natural gas was piped out to all farms in the area the demand disappeared. |
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As we chugged by the prairie, they caught a rare glimpse of a moose, standing next to the tracks. |
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Laura told us later that every week 15 different species of flowers start blooming on the prairie preserve. |
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Much of the dense brush was limited to rivers, creeks, drainages, and in small mottes on the prairie. |
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Studies have suggested that prairie dog colonies have higher avian densities and are more species rich than uncolonized areas. |
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The increasing size of the slag pile poses an ongoing threat to the richest remaining prairie site. |
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He was an oddball child, his bookishness and poetry out of step with his surroundings on the prairie earth. |
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Marl prairie occurs within the zone intermediate between the permanently flooded sloughs and the drier pine-dominated high ground. |
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Within its boundaries, Brazos Bend has clearly defined areas of gallery forest, freshwater marsh, coastal prairie and mixed hardwood bottomland. |
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Frank visits him in his little house, unscreened by trees, baking in the prairie sun, far from the leafy neighborhoods of the bourgeoisie. |
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He sees his father plow up the prairie, watches his parents' dreams of agricultural riches pulverized along with the dirt. |
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He garnered almost 5 per cent of the vote in 2000, a sign that prairie populism still flourishes here. |
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He's brown as a berry from ridin' the prairie and sings with an ol' western drawl. |
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Deer browsed selectively on prairie forbs but not on prairie grasses or sedges. |
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Because all study sites were contiguous with larger expanses of tallgrass prairie, they were not prairie fragments. |
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Virginia bunchflower is known historically from wet-mesic prairie in 17 counties located primarily in west-central Illinois. |
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This tie is done on a prairie find sun-bleached mule deer shed antler burr. I augmented the color of the burr with my own dye technique. |
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Different levels of the receptor are thought to explain the very different behaviours of meadow voles and prairie voles. |
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The two essential methods of prairie dog tabulation are aerial surveys and old-fashioned head counts. |
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Explore an overgrown old road bed through shady buttonwoods and open coastal salt prairie. |
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The track was gaining definition once again, and the fields around could be construed to be hayfields, instead of wild prairie. |
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At Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, hike a challenging trail to a viewpoint where the prairie opens before you with a great view. |
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As a kid, I used to see optical illusions that were caused by the heat on the prairie in North Dakota. |
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Due to the battle in the prairie, the white dress I wore over my chain mail was shredded, and my chain mail wasn't a pretty sight either. |
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The tour will also feature a short hike and interpretive tour of native prairie plants. |
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It was also interesting to note that the prairie dogs had overflowed the boundaries of their enclosure a bit. |
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You beautiful enigma, you Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, you little house on the prairie of the existential oversoul. |
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This sun hat frames the face very nicely and is reminiscent of the old prairie sun bonnets. |
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Human beings are simply more aware of it than is the average prairie dog or pumpkinseed sunfish. |
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Leaving his own horse lying flat down in the long prairie grass, and the mustang hoppled, Joe rode on directly toward the emigrant camp. |
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Stairs in the kiosk led us up to a viewing platform that afforded us a wonderful panorama of the Mima prairie. |
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The habitat for Melanthium is wet-mesic prairie located in swales or along streams. |
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Black swallow-wort is difficult to control and has been noted to invade prairie areas. |
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Higher up, grasslands are home to burrowing owls, chukars, and peregrine and prairie falcons. |
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A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction. |
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Although closely related species, meadow voles have multiple mates while prairie voles remain steadfastly faithful to their partners. |
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Then he looked out in the distance, far beyond the airfield and the prairie that rushed to meet it. |
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The Crim and Marble Forest sites are located in the prairie wetlands physiographic region in northcentral Iowa. |
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Doubtful prairie dogs have a proportionally larger neocortex in comparison to other mammals. |
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This map was completed by incorporating prairie sites that were indicated on plat maps for the remaining areas of Alabama. |
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However, cowbirds exhibit density-dependent selection of wooded edge versus prairie interior habitats in the region. |
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Its members ranged from patricians to populists, from Main Street Republicans to prairie socialists. |
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A hawk hid under the potentilla bush and leaped suddenly on an overconfident prairie dog a little too far from its burrow. |
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Grizzly bears and bison were exterminated, and coyotes and prairie dogs were shot on sight and poisoned. |
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The main cause for the decline of the regal fritillary is the loss of tallgrass prairie habitat. |
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In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops. |
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Waterfowl were available in the larger river valleys, and they are common at prairie potholes. |
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Thermal conditions in the previous year were strongly associated with grasshopper abundance in this oldfield prairie. |
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Sedge meadow was distinguished from wet prairie by having more than half its dominants as sedge family species. |
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Other populations of Sioux are to be found in the prairie provinces of Canada. |
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My friend and I have just come upon a picturesque farmhouse on a rolling prairie. |
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The campus itself boasts 6800 acres of open water, fields, deciduous forests, restored prairie, and wetlands. |
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As a young woman she worked job to job, to help her parents make their prairie farm a home. |
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Prairie pothole marshes were present in two small prairie potholes that often dry completely in the summer. |
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The redevelopment will restore prairie and riparian corridors within new city parks and open space. |
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The Canadian prairie is one of the most productive wheat fields in the world. |
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Results for the prairie chicken indicated that a single vital rate consistently had greatest effect on population growth. |
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For example, the prairie dog is a tremendous pest throughout the Western United States. |
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Many species depend on the prairie dog for food or habitat, such as the swift fox, burrowing owl, and ferruginous hawk. |
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If the environmental accord were a bull, you would be feasting on barbecued prairie oysters. |
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The horns might be considered masculine, but that is how cows protected their calves from prairie wolves, so people left them on. |
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She has warmly wrapped her heart around 11 honky-tonk torch songs with more authentic wails than a lonesome prairie wolf. |
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For 91 years, Nebraska state law decreed that black-tailed prairie dogs be eradicated annually. |
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In addition to improving prairie health, this would bolster tourism by providing a connection to prairie-region natural history and cultural heritage. |
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Mr. Harrison will compile the first-ever dedicated species inventory of microlepidoptera in a prairie community within the original range of eastern tallgrass prairie. |
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Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus. |
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In addition to sylvatic plague, a disease likely brought from Europe by ship rats, prairie dogs have suffered from aggressive poisoning campaigns by farmers and ranchers. |
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The piney woods open up to a sort of prairie, and then I am almost there. |
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Depicting a non-specific scene of prairie settlement in the 19th century, the project explores issues of hope and social advancement as well as techniques of museum display. |
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The Blackfeet believed in underground prairie reserves of buffalo and that if hunters killed all the buffalo they could find, more would emerge from secret caves. |
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Spring is planting season, and the prairie, unlike the days of the pioneers, becomes a monochrome green. |
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The yard and the vast prairie lands were bleak and desolate. |
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And, of course, exposure to a prairie dog or other little mammal from that Texas distributor, but not exposure to monkeys as simian lovers are quick to point out. |
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During this era of settlement of the prairie and western frontiers, a belief in the inevitability of white men's dominance of the landscape was prevalent. |
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The sedge meadow community graded into bluejoint-muhly grass wet prairie along its drier boundaries and prairie pothole marsh where water was deeper. |
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The ages of charcoal deposits suggest instead that prairie fires occurred during intervening wet periods, with each wet-dry cycle lasting more than a century each. |
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In areas within bur oak groves where more sunlight could reach the ground, typical full-sun prairie species like little bluestem or big bluestem could be found. |
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The company also makes a variety of lures for whitetail and mule deer, bear and elk, as well as a number of unique cover scents, including cattle, hemlock and desert prairie. |
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This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds. |
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Prairie cordgrass dominated some areas of wet prairie, especially in the northern parts of the site, whereas bluejoint and muhly grass dominated others. |
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Native prairie grasses and plants blanket the uncultivated tribal land. |
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Mass media is a grazeable prairie of deceptively unfenced pastures. |
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A slide show beams Americana pictures of kids ice-fishing, aproned men cooking pasta, and prairie sunsets. |
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One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie. |
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We walked on and Heiser pointed out the western wallflowers underfoot, and the prairie smoke, a flower whose thin, hairlike fruits look, collectively, like a red mist. |
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Cattle grazed the pastures where prairie hens, quail and coyote roamed. |
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The wetter areas support meadows containing Missouri goldenrod, false toadflax, golden-glow, Indian paintbrush, Mariposa lily, death camas, and prairie smoke. |
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The men's job was to operate the sweepers, brushing up the vegetable waste, the paper bags, the scraps and orts of the Market like prairie harvesters. |
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For half an hour there were no cars as we accelerated, paralleling the line of the river through fields of rich soil resized to prairie proportions. |
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These quick tender biscuits go with just about any prairie meal. |
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Diminished prairie dog populations now face the even greater catastrophe of sylvatic plague, an introduced contagious disease for which prairie dogs have little immunity. |
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Marl prairie is a relatively diverse floristic association dominated by grasses, sedges, and rushes growing on thin limestone soils that are seasonally flooded. |
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Dry prairie consists mainly of grass species, especially little bluestem, splitbeard bluestem, wire grass, bottlebrush threeawn, Indian grass, and slender beardgrass. |
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And typically when hunting small-game like woodchucks, prairie dogs or coyotes, you are in a fixed position with an adequate rest so that shot placement is very controlled. |
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others. |
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Some birds, including game species such as pheasant and prairie grouse and non-game species such as songbirds, prefer open grassland to woody cover. |
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Harvey now lives in the central prairie province of Saskatchewan, Canadian news reports say, along with her husband and son. |
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A native prairie of black-eyed Susans, Indian grass, big and little bluestem, ladino clover, and other native grasses quilts the 32 acres of bottomground near the river. |
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If building high-performance boats in the heart of the prairie seems unlikely, consider that most of the people making them are classic landlubbers, farmers to the core. |
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The cliffs are a reminder that a giant, lazy river sluiced through the prairie as it coursed west to the Pacific, a passage since blocked by the rise of the Andes. |
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In her poetry, this is apparent in the representation of prairie homesteaders as cultivators and, by extension, civilizers of an untamed western wilderness. |
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The ferret's survival has forever been entwined with that of the prairie dog, a foot-tall rodent that makes up about 90 percent of the predator's diet. |
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It carried passengers in new stagecoaches and freight from the mines using twelve-mule teams and prairie schooners pulled by sixteen oxen plus six spare animals. |
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Indirect evidence suggests that changes in prairie vole grazing patterns and reproductive physiology may be in part responsible for vegetational changes. |
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Limestone prairie habitat in Pennsylvania is seriously threatened. |
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Spring Bank is a post office in the southern part of the county, about ten miles south of Martinsburgh, on gently rolling prairie, near the source of Elk Creek. |
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Dakotans like to believe that their long winters encourage reflection and reading, and the open view across the prairie inspires a broad-minded intellectual armature. |
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In Eurasia and North America, the spread of grasslands forced an evolutionary change in herbivorous mammals, with the forest browsers giving way to the prairie grazers. |
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Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie. |
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In that place we had an open prairie not far from our house. |
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This last includes chipmunks, gophers, marmots, and prairie dogs. |
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Similarly, prairie chicken, sage grouse, and prairie elk will gain critical habitat when we establish bison and prairie dog reserves in the national grasslands. |
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You've got much more than a fish on when you've nabbed a taimen, a specimen that regularly grows to five feet long and dines on prairie dogs and ducks. |
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But this hardscrabble, prairie town, with its population of 5,000 people, cast its charm on Ballantine. |
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In 2003, more than 70 people were infected with monkey pox, a viral infection never before seen in this country, after handling infected prairie dogs sold as pets. |
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Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function. |
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Able to live 200 to 400 years and named for its bristly husks, or caps, bur oak goes by the names prairie oak, blue oak, scrub oak, or mossycup oak. |
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The buffet-style lunch or dinner has roast sirloin of beef, baked ham, prairie chicken and other selections. |
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Notable North American fauna include the bison, black bear, prairie dog, turkey, pronghorn, raccoon, coyote and monarch butterfly. |
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The air was wine and seltzer, perfumed, as they absorbed it, with the delicate redolence of prairie flowers. |
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You may see black-tailed prairie dogs standing on alert at the edges of their burrows or horned larks dashing across the road. |
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Even Maxwell the trader, who has been most among them, is compelled to resort to the curious sign language common to most of the prairie tribes. |
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A strong affinity for prairie dog colonies is typical of Burrowing Owls in regions where prairie dogs are present. |
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In dry tallgrass prairie, FQA responded to a disturbance gradient but with less sensitivity than alternative metrics. |
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The populations of sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chickens soared with new, high-protein cereal grains as food. |
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He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie. |
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It is a member of the Fabaceae family and is commonly known as prairie groundplum or milkvetch. |
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The burn will remove nonnative Manitoba maple and other non-native shrubs in order to allow a healthy native tallgrass prairie to develop. |
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So why would a female prairie dog take the risk to mate with multiple males? |
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The prairie round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews. |
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In 1968, Trudeaumania swept much of Canada, but it made little permanent dent in the Tories' prairie stronghold. |
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There was a significant decrease in the number of salticids and araneids present after the prairie burn. |
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Inspired by the prairie chicken during mating season, the male dances to win the female. |
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A fortune can be made on the prairie, and that's what me and Mr. B aim to do. Don't aim to be all hat and no cattle forever, let me tell you! |
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The hard hearted villains cooped the cowboy up in a barrel and rolled him out on the prairie to die of thirst and starvation. |
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The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie, and does not extend between coteries. |
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The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants. |
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Many ground squirrels sit up and look like prairie dogs, but a ground squirrel can be recognized by its longer face and tall. |
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Some vital areas, such as southwestern prairie, have experienced a loss in excess of 98 percent. |
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While there, he expressed a desire to see an American prairie before returning east. |
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The flat, fertile prairie of the Great Plains stretches to the west, interrupted by a highland region in the southeast. |
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The pattern of settlement of the Canadian prairies began in 1896, when the American prairie states had already achieved statehood. |
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The female prairie skink uses respiratory water loss to maintain the humidity of the eggs which facilitates embryonic development. |
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Where continuous and protected, such as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the prairie is near ideal interior habitat for the species. |
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Habitat used by lesser prairie chickens for feeding related to seasonal behavior of plants in Beaver County, Oklahoma. |
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Foraging ecology of selected prairie wildflowers in Missouri prairie remnants and restorations, pp. |
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Outside the breeding season, prairie voles live in close proximity with others in small colonies. |
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The Navajo people ate prairie dog baked in mud, while the Paiute ate gophers, squirrels, and rats. |
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These prairie plants grew on farms of the Killdeer Plains between Bucyrus, Marion and Upper Sandusky. |
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Restored prairie, mixed swamp, and early succession forest were significant carbon assimilators, but for different reasons. |
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Soils of dry sand prairie communities lacked a dark A horizon, and the grasses, most of which were bunchgrasses, rarely exceeded 1 m in height. |
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There is something majestic about the spirit of an unbroken mustang as it runs wild across the prairie. |
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The shortgrass prairie population of Canada geese, made up of two small races, nests in whitefront country, too. |
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Nine vertebrate species, including the mountain plover, burrowing owl, golden eagle, and ferruginous hawk are said to depend on prairie dogs. |
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After a ferret has eaten a prairie dog, it moves into the burrow where the prairie dog used to live. |
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Thus, we believe the single worn dentary presently available is insufficient to establish a subgeneric identification of the fossil prairie dog. |
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The shortgrass prairie steppe is the westernmost part of the Great Plains region. |
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In South Dakota, Burrowing Owls are closely associated with colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs. |
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The black-footed ferret's diet consists almost exclusively of prairie dogs another species that lives only in North America. |
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These small, weasel-like predators once occurred across a large area of the American West wherever prairie dogs occurred. |
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Sound communications of black-tailed, white-tailed, and Gunnison's prairie dogs. |
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Memories of Copenhagen poppies, elves, and the Norns ground the newcomer more deeply than the thin Canadian prairie soil. |
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Further away, prescribed burning would have been used in forest and prairie areas. |
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Occurrence of two rare prairie insects, Tetraloniella albata and Microstylum morosum, at Terre Noire Natural Area, Clark County, Arkansas. |
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It is interesting to note that this wolf spider was captured in large numbers in the tallgrass prairie site. |
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That obstacle is sylvatic plague, an exotic disease fatal to black-tailed prairie dogs. |
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Those 18 wild animals provided the 49 juveniles that researchers have just finished releasing into a prairie dog village in Shirley Basin, Wyo. |
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While a prairie oyster isn't most people's idea of a good time, it is the essential preliminary feature of Nigella's restoration process. |
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Born eight years after the Civil War ended, Cather is often identified with pioneer experience and the Nebraska prairie. |
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Life in July of 1964 in the small prairie town of Dickinson, North Dakota, might seem to be quiet and unthreatening. |
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Since 2007, the company has also developed extensive distribution in Western Canada's prairie provinces. |
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With backsides the size of a prairie and more fat that a Lurpak factory, they squeeze into the offending hipsters. |
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Some animals, such as the Apache pocket mouse, the bleached earless lizard, and the Cowles prairie lizard, have adapted. |
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Slobodchikoff studies Gunnison's prairie dogs at Northern Arizona University. |
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Additional petitions by conservation groups to protect white-tailed and Gunnison's prairie dogs were denied in 2004 and 2006, respectively. |
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Ground squirrels do not seem to communicate such a difference, but Gunnison's prairie dogs might. |
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Buffalo, prairie dogs, and wildfires helped maintain this mosaic. |
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In temperate environments, where ecosystems were predominantly grassland or prairie, highly productive annual farming is the dominant agricultural system. |
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A strong Canadian raising exists in the prairie regions together with certain older usages such as chesterfield and front room also associated with the Maritimes. |
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You will see the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start and run for miles in mere sportiveness. |
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Seasonal and temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal and dark septate endophytic fungi in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem are minimally affected by nitrogen enrichment. |
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Both species of Peromyscus, the prairie deer mouse, mentioned above, and the woodland form, the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, were taken at Goose Pond. |
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Canis latrans has been called the brush wolf and the prairie wolf. |
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These sites, also known as barrens, are often adjacent to cedar glades and in many instances grade floristically into them, as was the case at the three prairie study sites. |
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Identification and analysis of lesser and greater prairie chicken habitat. |
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A population of approximately 25 individuals of Eryngium yuccifolium, rattlesnake master plants, was discovered in a small prairie opening on the western edge of the property. |
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Just 150 years ago, half a million square miles of prairie covered the plains, but intensive agriculture, led by sodbusters, changed the character of the landscape forever. |
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Program partners have learned that to establish a moderately sized and stable ferret population requires relatively large and high quality complexes of prairie dog colonies. |
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The Nature Conservancy takes innovative action to invest in the planet s environmental and economic future, such as Colorado s shortgrass prairie. |
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In Arizona, Gunnison's prairie dog populations have declined 98 percent, because of historic and current poisoning and shooting, sylvatic plague and habitat destruction. |
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Some subspecies, such as Attwater's prairie chicken and the Cantabrian capercaillie, and some national and regional populations are also in danger. |
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If you have ever sunk a prairie oyster or tucked into a fried egg breakfast the morning after the night before you may have been onto something, scientifically speaking. |
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As well as raccoons, I have prairie dogs, skunks and Corsac foxes. |
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Several plains states, from South Dakota down through New Mexico, also have prairie chickens and in Colorado's high mountains you can hunt white-tailed ptarmigan. |
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In Canada's cattle country, the dish goes by the name of prairie oysters. |
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I had all the kids in my summer camp lie back in the prairie and watch the little white cumulous clouds float past the impossibly blue sky of summer. |
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There were also three black-tailed prairie dogs, several types of tortoise, five ornate horned frogs, an iguana, a gecko and a degu, a small rodent endemic to central Chile. |
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These species occupy a prairie ecosystem and include the mardon skipper and Taylor's checkerspot butterflies, the streaked horned lark, and the Mazama pocket gopher. |
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Like many prairie cities, Winnipeg has a relatively low cost of living. |
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Clouds of small-flowered asters sparkle in the background and hosts of yellow prairie daisies, rudbeckias and helianthemums take up their posts in a relaxed sort of a way. |
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Over 150 species of native tallgrass forbs and graminoids, with big bluestem and prairie dropseed being the dominant grass species in the prairie which is burned annually. |
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The Red Buffalo Gift Shop, the leader in gourmet foods and beverages from the tallgrass prairie, today announced that its products are available at Amazon. |
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Just bald eagles, golden eagles, pronghorn antelope, mule deer, elk, quail, prairie falcons, coyotes, chukars, gopher snakes, ravens and great horned owls, to name a few. |
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It is possible that we were not able to detect inputs of mineralizable N due to rapid N movements in the biologically complex, root-dense soils of the prairie. |
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Cattle were raised on the open range in the western United States and Canada, on the Pampas of Argentina, and on other prairie and steppe regions of the world. |
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Extirpation of prairie dogs can also contribute to regional and local biodiversity loss, increased seed depredation, and the establishment and spread of invasive shrubs. |
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The prairie vole is monogamous and forms a lifelong pair bond. |
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