European settlers introduced shallow-rooted annual grasses to the state, which partly displaced deeper-rooted perennial grasses.
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Under the washing lines, grasses heavy with seed pods all incline slightly southward, and among the grasses a lone yellow plant, maybe a ragwort.
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Converting deep-rooted perennial grasses native to the region to shallow-rooted annual grasses from Europe in livestock pastures also depletes the land's ability to sequester carbon.
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In addition to overgrown forests, Mass places some responsibility on the spread of invasive grasses — which he referred to as "grassoline" — that burn more readily than Washington's native grasses.
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Invasive grasses, or grasses that have encroached from other regions, can make wildfires more frequent, not just in California but nationwide, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS.
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Compared to 1999 the quality of the grasses is better.
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It depicts, among other things, grasses from throughout the world.
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Grasses, poking through the white sand, bend in the breeze.
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Pasture grasses and beehive boxes are planned for the perimeter.
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From time to time the grasses move in the breeze.
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"The long grasses here have me paranoid," Erin Walker said.
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The goats gobble tall grasses, shrubs, bushes and small trees.
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But the tribe is using everything at its disposal to calm the waves and restore a long, slim beach at the edge of Shinnecock Bay: dredged sand, sea grasses, beach grasses, boulders, oyster shells.
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This is especially great for grasses and other fairly leafy plants.
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Modern-day kangaroos, by contrast, prefer grasses, flowers, ferns, and moss.
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It reminded me of the wild grasses of Manhattan's High Line.
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They fell in love amid the plants and grasses of Massachusetts.
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That allows them to eat foods, like grasses, that humans can't.
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Children's Books A human corpse becomes fertile loam for gentle grasses.
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Sedums and ornamental grasses generally do well in full southern sun.
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TIL that TEDS means to turn or spread grasses for drying.
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One third had allergies, including allergies to grasses, trees and pets.
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For livestock, it is as good (nutritionally speaking) as most other grasses.
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The fire, which erupted on Thursday, is consuming palmetto trees and grasses.
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Developing new sources of animal feed (insects, grasses, legumes etc) is critical.
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Most of the time, marmots are vegetarians that eat grasses and fruits.
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And all those grains and grasses take water to grow in turn.
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Prairie grasses turn colors in the fall, like trees in New England.
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People were just moving with guns and arrows everywhere, looking for grasses.
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And when it doesn't burn naturally, it can become dominated by grasses.
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It has a taproot that drills through the fibrous roots of grasses.
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Now, humble grasses are returning as focal points in free-spirited bouquets.
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Their nearest relatives were not delicate grasses, but single-use plastic stirrers.
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Moreover, it was thicker and brighter in color than other grasses, she observed.
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Many take out weed whackers, masks and gasoline cans to tackle the grasses.
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Traditionally, girls have used rags or dry grasses to deal with their period.
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However, many of California's fires are burning through grasses and shrubs, not forests.
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Drought can actually kill off the grasses and shrubs that would ordinarily burn.
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But the forests should have a robust understory — grasses, shrubs and other plants.
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The air rustled the grasses, with a few large raindrops passing through it.
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Prairie grasses of muted yellows and olives bristled under a heartbreakingly blue sky.
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The vineyard floor was covered in grasses, and Queen Anne's lace were blooming.
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We hunt by letting our tight pack of hounds unravel into the grasses.
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Others have left out seed, water and grasses for dehydrated and hungry fauna.
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There was only, as it got up again, the breeze among the grasses to distract them from each other, and they both looked out and across the moving grasses, as though casually, as though on the off chance of news.
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As climate change pushes temperatures up, vegetation like grasses and trees are dying out.
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California may be increasingly susceptible to loads of dried-out grasses in the future.
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Lined with 400 plant species, from wildflowers to grasses, it's a unique urban oasis.
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Amid the tall grasses, she found heaping piles of the material she'd been chasing.
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Poorly sited forest-belts have often killed off grasses and other naturally occurring vegetation.
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In June and July, when grasses typically grow, the pastures are becoming more productive.
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The spindly legs are also thought to be an adaptation for these high grasses.
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Another of Basho's haiku:a long-weathered skull, through whose eyes grow tall, blowing grasses.
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"Light tinkled among the trees," and the "grasses gleamed sword-like," says my story.
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"Grasses typically don't need as much input as people think they do," Reynolds says.
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Marsh grasses have been planted to control erosion in parts of the Florida panhandle.
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Waste from penguin colonies then nourishes those invasive species, which consist mostly of grasses.
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"Sometimes, we'd just collect dry grasses and try to cook with those," she says.
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Wild onions and turnips, found growing alongside the tall grasses, are great in stews.
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To stabilize the sand, the New Deal–era Civilian Conservation Corps planted European grasses.
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The grasses can also keep the soil from being blown about during windy weather.
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The front yard has a pebbled surface planted with desert grasses, trees and cactuses.
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Without controlled burns or occasional fires, flammable materials like brush and dead grasses accumulate.
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A wetlands buffer of shrubs and grasses now protects the water from runoff. Mrs.
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The family lives in a tick-endemic area, their home surrounded by tall grasses.
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The image from this one ["British Grasses" kimono] comes from botanical photographer Roger Phillips.
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But we disproportionately treat our grasses with environmentally harmful chemicals like fertilizers and pesticides.
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Generally, three to three and a half inches is an accepted height for most grasses.
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Trees and grasses and shrubs, as they grow, soak up CO 2 from the air.
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OUTDOOR SPACE: The property is desert, with pinyon pines and juniper trees among native grasses.
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The increased precipitation led to a sudden growth spurt in combustible grasses, shrubs, and trees.
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Or do they plant and maintain a cover crop, whether grasses, legumes or something else?
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The restored grasses then take in more carbon dioxide and store it in the soil.
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This limits the kinds trees, crops, and grasses that can be used sustainably for BECCS.
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The closer we got to the peaked-roof driftwood structure, the higher the grasses rose.
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They're eating the grasses and shrubs and bugs that wild animals would otherwise be eating.
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The height of its flower is exactly the height of the grasses it grows among.
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After they shot him, "They threw me in the grasses behind the base," he said.
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It's a lawn with a diversity of plants, taller grasses, and a gentler, undulating appearance.
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But, after doing some reading, Wigmore felt certain that "manna" referred to indigenous grasses and weeds.
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They can eat thistle, blackberry, English Ivy, kudzu, poison ivy, various grasses, and so much more.
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"They are mainly active outdoors in wooded areas amongst shrubs, trees and tall grasses," he said.
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For loveThe leaning grasses and two lights above the sea —A poem should not meanBut be.
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The monument is home to fantastic geological formations, native grasses, rare species and extraordinary Anasazi ruins.
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"We haven't faced an amount of annual grasses of this significance in many years," Scott said.
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I wear them for anything that involves grasses, because there's actually a lot of ticks around.
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The experience of paddling through marshes lined with tall grasses and rocky shores is incredibly tranquil.
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Now, butterflies have moved in where native grasses and flowers have been allowed to grow tall.
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"These animals could be like invasion engineers," allowing the grasses to spread further, Dr. Bokhorst said.
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That initiated changes which continued over the years, despite efforts to reseed the area with grasses.
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Owls roost in saguaro cactuses, endangered antelopes browse sparse grasses, bighorn sheep leap among rugged crags.
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Similarly, crops grown for human consumption like grains and grasses can also lead to negative emissions.
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The trees are in touch, the white smoke from the grasses, feeding the trees to germinate.
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It often requires buying farmland and painstakingly regrowing forests, keeping out invasive grasses and preventing fires.
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Surrounding the house was a mini-prairie of golden grasses, vivid now against the gray backdrop.
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They are opportunistic omnivores sucking up whatever they can: grasses, crab apples, even snakes and slugs.
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Worryingly, these were more flammable than the feathery tussock grasses that had previously colonized the land.
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And those grasses burn faster than trees, which adds to the threat to buildings and homes.
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That's especially beneficial in former prairie land, where native wildflowers have often given way to grasses.
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A trickling stream runs between towering pillars of red stone, nourishing tall grasses, and leafy palms.
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"It's a whole lot to put on, but when I did the whole scene out in the middle of the grasses and the golden grasses, I thought, 'I am a relative of Beyoncé — a distant relative of Beyoncé,' " she told Entertainment Tonight on the blue carpet.
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If you find a lot of rocks and grasses, that will dictate what you use for shelter.
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This occurs after severe droughts, when the lack of moister kills invasive grasses that can suppress wildflowers.
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The state has a lot of nonnative grasses and plants — most notably the highly flammable eucalyptus plant.
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In the wetland sections, there are native meadow grasses such as evergreen fescues and tufted hair grass.
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Prairie dogs and ground squirrels live in the same habitat and eat many of the same grasses.
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So carbon put into the ground long ago by deep-rooted grasses may now be seeping out.
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It takes a lot of grains or grasses to produce and grow these larger animals for meat.
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"There are various dynamic systems that can be monitored from space, like lakes, savanna, grasses," he concluded.
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The canals pulled in salt water, and, as the salinity rose, the reeds and marsh grasses died.
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The twig platform is then lined with soft grasses and other plant material to protect the eggs.
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On the lumpy ground in broken and desiccated grasses, we lay sobbing, trying to catch our breaths.
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A landscape dominated by taller shrubs burns a lot differently than a landscape dominated by shorter grasses.
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Next, he scattered an understory of grasses: little bluestem, big bluestem, splitbeard bluestem, broomsedge bluestem, et cetera.
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" Wild rye grasses throw a "green long shadow," and each trillium stem has its "fragile one bloom.
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I ran my fingers through the high yellowed grasses, relishing the open space and these architectural formations.
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Old-timers used to simply pull plants out by the roots and cut grasses by sickle and scythe.
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A cloud of insects with green wings rose out of the tall grasses and fluttered around her shoulders.
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To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence.
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Specifically, an abundance of grasses and other vegetation from the previous winter (2016-2017) were left to burn.
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SpaceX bulldozed grasses and cacti next to the Pointers' home to erect a bustling barbwire-fenced work yard.
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The lichens, grasses and shrubs they eat grow better in warmer summers, and their populations have been rising.
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These blankets of wildflowers, grasses, and sometimes even vegetables reduce water runoff, absorb carbon dioxide, and lower temperatures.
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Grasses, he liked to say, were like straws sipping carbon from the air, bringing it back to earth.
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There is a precedent for a loss helping a President and party move on to greener political grasses.
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Farms are complex systems of soils, pests, air, water, trees, grasses, insects and animals interacting with one another.
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Try digging from the crevices of boulders and in the roots of riverbank grasses, where gold often catches.
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It has also attracted gardeners, public park managers and railway operators, intent on getting rid of unwanted grasses.
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William Stewart: We finally had a wet winter, and then all that fuel [shrubs and grasses] dried out.
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Weeds grow through every crack in the pavement, and shrubs and wild grasses sprout from the untended flowerbeds.
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And trees and grasses — the fuel of wildfires — are more dry and for longer periods of the year.
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Back then, his cattle could fill their bellies in just an hour or two feeding on thick grasses.
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The ethereal silk dresses printed with Schiff's photographs of candles and grasses were paired with lug-soled boots.
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He is a keen and passionate observer, and he knows his natural history — birds, dune grasses, marine mammals.
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Rain that falls on snow can freeze into an impenetrable layer of ice over the lichens and grasses.
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Imagine if even a quarter of our nation's turf grass acreage were transformed into native plants and grasses.
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The winter storms have unleashed a bumper crop of highly flammable grasses in lowland foothills across the West.
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All those hours spent searching for grasses, roots and fruits means there's little time left over for sleep.
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They had pounded their range to powder; the desert grasses that remained had been eaten to the nubs.
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The film combined shots of flowing water and waving native grasses with grainy footage of cowboys and trains.
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They deposit the glistening sludge, mixed with tall grasses, on their side of the channel, forming a neat ridge.
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In the North, lawns do better with cool-season grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, or perennial ryegrass.
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Siberian unicorns, as this analysis revealed, lived in a dry steppe environment where they chomped on tough, dry grasses.
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And drier vegetation is easier to ignite, with brushes and grasses serving as the kindling to ignite larger fires.
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When rain falls on the snow and freezes, reindeer can't push the snow aside and reach the grasses underneath.
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The moisture accelerated the proliferation of fast-growing grasses and shrubs that dominate the chaparral landscape around Los Angeles.
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In the river below float 80 coconut-fiber beds, replete with native grasses, shrubs, and even river birch trees.
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Yet, compared to the wild grasses they are bred from, the ears of modern cereal plants are grotesquely obese.
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Natural potholes would still fill without bighorn to lap them, and the grasses would grow without bison to graze.
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These molecules occur naturally in (and lend sweetness to) fruits, some vegetables, grasses (sugarcane is one!), and dairy products.
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These livestock convert grasses and agricultural waste into fuel, fertilizer, and high-quality nutrients for populations vulnerable to hunger.
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I didn't make the drive to appreciate the spring grasses growing on the rolling plains of the Flint Hills.
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It is bluest when you lie on your side and look through the grasses that grow by your cheek.
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The native prairie grasses funded by the Conservation Reserve Program prevent erosion and sequester carbon in their deep roots.
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The grasses recede, forcing herds of wildebeest to walk farther and farther from their only water source to graze.
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The sun is still out, and the warm air smells of wild grasses growing in the fresh plantings nearby.
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Above the house, a steep hill climbs to the rim of the valley, covered in tall grasses and oaks.
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One year, I attacked the oat grasses on my property with a machete, which my neighbors found quite amusing.
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The pines looked so anomalous surrounded by a sea of grasses that the area was known as Island Trees.
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Peacocks wander the grounds, cicadas sing from tall, ornamental grasses and both real and fake ducks bob in ponds.
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More prevalent grasses and aspens provide food for elk and deer, and bird diversity often explodes after a burn.
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I walked past wild flowing grasses before reaching the closest point on shore to Godrevy Island and its lighthouse.
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On the hottest day, I forage for the wild strawberries that hide under the meadow grasses near our fence.
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Caney Fork River in Tennessee was named for the cane breaks — a thicket of grasses — found on its banks.
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After the hippos feed on plants and grasses on the river's shore, they come into the water to defecate.
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After years of drought, a wet winter nourished a bumper crop of grasses, shrubs, and trees throughout the state.
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In wild grasses SH4 promotes a phenomenon called "seed shattering" that releases seeds from the stalk when they are ripe.
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Trees, shrubs, and grasses drink in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen as they stretch their branches and spread their leaves.
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As Umair Irfan explained for Vox: As climate change pushes temperatures up, vegetation like grasses and trees are dying out.
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Generally, though, these plants are loners, widely scattered amid dry grasses and false beach heather, so larger shows are rare.
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He spotted crusts of dried salt in the streets, and salt-loving marsh grasses that are taking over suburban yards.
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The spacing among circles is then the result of competitive interactions between the tall grasses that depend on each circle.
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We ran back with her, to discover in the broken grasses three small kittens—white, with black and russet markings.
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The conservancy has planted a down payment on its vision: a tiny marsh of native grasses by the salt shed.
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Wildfires also contribute to global warming: Flames coursing through woodlands and grasses send greenhouse gases and particulates into the air.
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If you let it select its own diet, it'll choose all the mosses and different grasses and it'll do better.
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The only sound is the song of sparrows as wind ripples long grasses on what was once a parade ground.
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Reader's Notebook BROOKLIN, Me. — There is a lovely passage in "Charlotte's Web" that goes: The crickets sang in the grasses.
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Even after he graduated to lusher courses, with grasses that roll like linoleum, no one dared to change his stroke.
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Even if you are devoted to cacti and other drought-tolerant xeriscaping grasses and plants, they still need some moisture.
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The team at Ek Laboratories has successfully shown maximum conversion of over 43 different types of cellulose biomass at commercial scale including sugar cane bagasse, corn stover and fiber, agriculture waste, various grasses, most all woods and paper products, hays, algae, bamboo, tobacco and specialty crops such as sorghum, switch grass and sweet grasses.
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The next generation of biofuel types move away from the high costs of edible crops and use either grasses or trees.
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A warmer planet will cause more water to evaporate off the landscapes, drying trees and grasses — which then burn more easily.
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But that&aposs not prudent in the dry Mediterranean summer, when fires are an annual threat and long grasses fuel flames.
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The footage of "Marsh Ruins" lingers over grasses waving in the breeze and fiddler crabs scampering around in the wet sand.
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The fires thankfully moved fast enough that the root system for the grasses of the Great Plains should remain relatively intact.
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Restoring the steppe When mammoths roamed in a northern area known as the "mammoth steppe," that ecosystem was rich in grasses .
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The still air was disturbed only by an occasional bird or dragonfly, as elephants walked through the grasses across the river.
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From my window, I could see luscious palm trees and tall tropical grasses misted over by a layer of fresh dew.
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Images from the Beaver, Utah, area shows the depletion of grasses over the decades in an area grazed by wild horses.
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After snipping or digging up a few plants—grasses, sedges, rushes, ferns, and flowers—she carries them back to her studio.
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A deer steps slowly, grainily, through the grasses, and it is as I lean forward that the screen cuts to static.
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After a fire, these grasses are able to grow back faster, leading to concern that they may replace less flammable shrubs.
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Dozens of birders and a few flu researchers crouch down in the tall grasses, hiding out of the birds' sight line.
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The entire topography in northern Nigeria has changed in the last five years, meaning that herdsmen and cattle don't have grasses.
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Mysterious and elegant, woven from dried grasses and twigs, they are shaped like elongated teardrops and spin slowly in the air.
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By then, I had become obsessed with the Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf's environmentally conscious meadows of flowering perennials and grasses.
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The grazers might also prefer grasses to shrubs, which changes the vertical structure of the vegetation, further increasing the fire risk.
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Cows and other types of ruminants emit methane as their digestive systems break down the grasses or other foods they consume.
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The heat and drought dried out grasses and shoots that had been nourished by the winter snows, turning them into tinder.
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"While fire helps enhance crops and grasses for pasture, the fires also produce smoke that degrades air quality," the report says.
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But because the fire&aposs trickling, we&aposre leaving behind grasses that are there for certain birds that need that grass.
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At the time, her path was lined by tall grasses and red signs warning of danger with a skull and crossbones.
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Aboriginal techniques are based in part on fire prevention: ridding the land of fuel, like debris, scrub, undergrowth and certain grasses.
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Some of it was reintroducing deer and Exmoor ponies (they resemble cave paintings at Lascaux) to aerate and nourish the grasses.
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Cover crops such as grasses are seeded to avoid erosion on acres where flooding deterred growers from planting grains and oilseeds.
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Wildflowers and grasses wave along the path's edges, while a grove of trees shades one corner of the 1.7-acre site.
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Also keep in mind that the growth rate varies as well—for instance, based on the type of fertilizer you&aposre using (nitrogen-heavy fertilizers make grass grow faster), the time of year (cool-season grasses grow quickly in fall and spring, warm-season grasses grow fastest in summer), and how much water your lawn is getting.
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In fact, it is better, local agronomist and naturalist Giuseppe Piro told me, to wait until grasses have reached their maximum growth.
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"They can put a fair bit of water down out there that keeps those grasses, those lower fuels from catching," Arai said.
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We can see the hawks overhead, feel the brush of dry grasses against our skin, reach to the mountains or the sea.
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In the third location, where human activity is rampant, the frogs were seen perching on leaves of small shrubs, ferns, and grasses.
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Such ecosystems, which include sea grasses, mangrove forests and salt marshes, capture carbon emmissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.
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Designed by Weintraub Diaz Landscape Architecture, the outdoor space will also have ornamental and native grasses and a vegetable-and-herb garden.
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Much of the brush and grasses were blackened along the valleys, and many trees were still burning, a CNN crew there observed.
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It killed grasses and trees critical to supporting the natural barriers that protect communities and cities from rising seas and sinking coastlines.
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Called GrowOnUs, it was planted with water-filtering flowers and grasses, and buoyed by recycled plastic bottles that offered habitat to mussels.
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The roof had given way long ago and nature had crept inside, with skeletal bushes and limp grasses rising in the stalls.
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The researchers infer that as the lake shrank, grasses and sedges started growing around it, followed by sagebrush, buttercups, birch and willow.
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A group of women laugh as they change into dry clothes behind tall grasses, while others slowly wade into the still water.
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They are found on various grasses as well as crops such as wheat and barley, where they form a "beard" in appearance.
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But these trees are rapidly disappearing, along with the shrubs, grasses, fungi, and soil bacteria that work alongside them to circulate moisture.
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I run from the swampy shoreline, through the tall grasses and short shrubs, towards the village I've called home my whole life.
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" Also on his list: native grasses, Russian sage, bee balm, agastache and ilex verticillata for its cheery red berries in winter. "Hydrangeas?
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Her flowers and grasses are drawn impressionistically, while the bees themselves are made more emotionally legible with cartoonish eyes and even smiles.
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Connecting people to wildlife Dugongs are a species of sea cow which graze on sea grasses in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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The 2,600-acre wilderness preserve includes pine, maple and birch, along with wetlands adorned with tall grasses and shockingly purple wild lupines.
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Gnus have well-entrenched migratory patterns during dry seasons, during which they travel in large herds to find water and greener grasses.
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In the Intermountain West, one can at least find remnant patches of native vegetation; on Point Reyes pastures, non-native grasses dominate.
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She admired the long strip of desert willows, grasses and flowering plants that have flourished since the garden was built in 2018.
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Shoulder-season whiplash events are different in character than winter whiplash phenomena because trees' leaves, grasses, and other vegetation are actively growing.
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Over time, the grasses were replaced with different types of woody shrubs -- collectively called brush -- which have since grown out of control.
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A meadow with a pergola, for instance, sprouts more than 300 ornamental grasses, and a small peach orchard was introduced in 2012.
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My grandfather had a cheese factory and a farm, and it was a beautiful spring day, when the grasses were very green.
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Ticks, on the other hand, usually cling to grasses on the ground, where they can latch onto succulent hosts for a blood meal.
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Following years of drought, the wettest winter on record drenched the state, feeding a bumper crop of trees, grasses, and shrubs throughout California.
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Everything is utterly new, so much so that there was a strong scent of manure fertilizing all those freshly planted trees and grasses.
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We were absolutely entranced, watching them mill around, dive into the water, flutter through the tall grasses and burrow into their underground nests.
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Grasscutter connoisseurs also claim that the wild animals, because they eat a wider variety of grasses, are both tastier and better for you.
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Peacefully wandering the beautiful landscape, snacking on nutrient-rich grasses of many varieties, and hanging out with your crew all day everyday forever.
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Off-season, post-earthquake Nepal crystallizes here into a personal adventureland of elephants and rhinos, tall grasses and a peacefulness that is otherworldly.
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In general, trees will pollinate first in the early spring, and you'll start to react to grasses and weeds later in the season.
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The usual verdant grasses surrounding Buckingham Palace and much of the British Open's 176-year-old Carnoustie golf course have yellowed since May.
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The Appraisal MONTAUK, N.Y. — Dunes are usually a source of wonder, with their waving grasses, rippling sands and the slow reveal of waves.
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We crossed through fields of knee-high grasses, above irregularly shaped plots of farmland that formed a crazy quilt of gold and green.
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The fire was fueled by invasive grasses thriving after winter rains, along with shrubs and small trees killed by the years-long drought.
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To "veg up," as the process is called, the snipers collect grasses and other vegetation and weave it into the their mesh covers.
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But the sweltering heat has had some unexpected results, uncovering architecture and more that had been lost to the long grasses of history.
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Don't miss Javier S. Medina's atelier on Calle Escorial, where he makes charming vegan hunting trophy heads out of cane, reeds and grasses.
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Starting at dawn, trackers and a pack of lean Saluki greyhounds search the dry grasses until they flush a houbara from its roost.
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But perhaps the biggest surprise was the significant loss of what biologists call foundational species, like coral reefs, sea grasses and kelp forests.
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"They won't be happy until we are eating only organic grasses and then all women forced filed onto an abortion table," dano1 added.
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Years of actively suppressing natural fires have allowed trees, grasses, and shrubs to accumulate at unnatural levels in many parts of the world.
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But that moisture has also boosted the growth of grasses and other small plants at lower elevations — creating more fuel in those areas.
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Ms. Cassens's father, Ed Hughes, 63, named every bird that fluttered overhead and distinguished for us the native from the invasive grasses underfoot.
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All the while, two rows of smooth, eroded mountain peaks enclosed me in an amphitheater of muted colors: hazel-hued heather, golden grasses.
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The park now has over 200 species of plants, mostly perennials and grasses, and two-dozen species of trees, which number around 1,000.
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Leafy trees and grasses peeked over the edges and around the banks, and out of caves in the cliff's side, the models emerged.
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We emerge from Manhattan into the estuaries of New Jersey, amethyst grasses waving under a blue sky, wooden walkways crisscrossing salty, sodden ground.
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This free event honors the 22,303 square feet of indigenous grasses and wildflowers planted on the roof of a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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I go to new parks and forests where I'm more likely to encounter the smells of new grasses and trees, new animal musks.
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Here she will perform her newest work, "Zero Grasses," a one-woman show created in collaboration with the Romanian theater director Alexandru Mihail.
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In the collection room, floor-to-ceiling steel cabinets contain 25,503 leaves and grasses (there were fruits too, once, but they rotted away).
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A 'more protective' guideline Introduced to the American market in 1974, glyphosate is an herbicide that can kill both broadleaf plants and grasses.
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It feels and sounds differently, too — the crunch of hearty beach grasses underfoot, the thud of a ball hopping across hard-packed sand.
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Another NASA satellite photo here shows a reclaimed area after a pond was drained and planted over, though the grasses have not yet grown.
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We waited for Jane a long time in our shorts and T-shirts, as all around us crickets were singing in the dry grasses.
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Meanwhile, a state-run laboratory is experimenting with grasses flown in from around the world to find one best suited to Qatar's desert climate.
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An illustration of a family of Woolly Mammoths grazing on what is left of the grasses as winter approaches in this ice age scene.
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Specifically, mulch made from Christmas trees, which will gain new life by helping plants and grasses to grow in city parks and community gardens.
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As the sun set on Sunday evening, Caitlyn and I walked the grounds outside her home, following a dirt path lined by tall grasses.
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The species add to fire risk because they are growing in regions that once had far fewer grasses and because of their physical structure.
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And Mr. Gunn devised a series of planted trays that allow shaggy plants and grasses to grow between granite pavers, suggesting a forest floor.
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She gestures to our floral setting—wildflowers and various tall grasses and vegetables amid ceaseless urban development—waterfront condos, Whole Foods, an Apple store.
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Surrounding ground must be cleared because the trees, robbed of genetic diversity through years of cloning, cannot compete with grasses, weeds and other trees.
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However, the California fires are burning through grasses and shrubs, not forests, and Abatzoglou was hesitant to make similar pronouncements about the current blazes.
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Some migrations are being choked off by housing and energy development, fences and roads, and the encroachment of invasive plants that replace native grasses.
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Sedges and grasses are filling in, including a wavy hairgrass that bears purple flowers and makes the whole patch look pinkish from a distance.
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The Robird is programmed to stay within a confined area, over the grasses and ponds near the airport, and to stay away from runways.
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In 1982, he took a two-week road trip through the Allegheny region in search of images, mostly in the swirls of windblown grasses.
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Before cultivation, Indiana was blanketed in prairie grasses and forest, and the carbon content of the soil was as high as 10 percent in places.
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So, off into the fields we go to scythe — an ancient method of cutting grasses that few people do anymore here in Sicily or elsewhere.
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The Little Missouri National Grasslands feature colorful and unspoiled badlands, a rugged terrain eroded by wind and water, and both long and short prairie grasses.
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Water clarity increased from 2014 to 2015 along with prevalence of aquatic grasses, an important habitat for key species including blue crab and striped bass.
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As he marched through the neck-high grasses, he bent low to hack away the undergrowth, filling the sack with manioke, a local root vegetable.
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She gives me a tour of the flowers, pointing out the new perennials, where the tall grasses have been trimmed back, which ones attract butterflies.
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Jane began moving, a wiggle-wiggle of sexiness directed to the mountains looming behind us, the hawks overhead, the crackle of grasses underneath our Reeboks.
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Scott McLean, a spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), explained that the precipitation spurred fast-growing grasses and shrubs.
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Play "rock Lego" and plant feathery grasses, such as the variegated Japanese silver grass ( Miscanthus sinensis 'Variegata ') that wave in the wind as a contrast.
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In other sectors, entire streets are devoid of houses, with trees and grasses reclaiming the lots, resembling a rural lane more than an urban thoroughfare.
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The result has been closer to 95 percent, with the dryer-habitat grasses growing their roots sideways so they don't take up as much water.
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Unlike trees, grasses don't shed their leaves at the end of the growing season; they depend on animals for defoliation and the recycling of nutrients.
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You see it in paintings like "Rolling Surf" (1958), and in "Sea Grasses and Blue Sea" (1958) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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"These grasses can act as kindling," said Emily J. Fusco, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and lead author of the study.
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This creates potential problems in places like California where most rainfall happens in the fall and winter, leaving the grasses to dry out in summer.
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Gibby began growing alfalfa, wheat, corn, barley and grasses there, and Mr. Gibby said some of the farming benefits of going organic quickly became apparent.
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For several hours, they eat all of the grasses they can find before the wire lifts, and the cattle rapidly move into a new section.
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Alas, lining the left side was a lateral hazard, and Woods pulled his 3-wood shot into the nature area, verdant with knee-high grasses.
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Retention ponds and thick grasses on some of the property's perimeter allow the Steinbrenner Field complex, built on swampland, to maintain remnants of that ecosystem.
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As earthworms feast on that layer, they allow nonnative plants such as European buckthorn and grasses to thrive, which in turn push out endemic plants.
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At the start of every hole, a gust can blow a well-struck tee shot off course — and into Shinnecock Hills' knee-high fescue grasses.
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It was a strangely warm February day, snow lingered amid the shoreline grasses and the bird peeked in and out of a drifting, intermittent fog.
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The designer Karl Lagerfeld had built a beach, complete with dunes, sea grasses and surf lapping at the shore, through which the models splashed barefoot.
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But after Johnson's death in 1971, the court fell into disrepair, and grasses and weeds overtook its red clay; two rusty net posts remained standing.
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"We are not rich people," said Ms. Dunavan, who questions the need for the pipeline and worries it would harm native grasses on her property.
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You don't look at this sandwich and imagine family farms, with free-roaming chickens happily pecking away at bugs and grasses under cloudless blue skies.
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"Oil Bunkering #5," Niger Delta / Photograph by Edward Burtynsky Burtynsky spent months in his basement enlarging the photos of grasses, but they seemed clichéd, sentimental.
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But though we may envision bands of mustangs sprinting through lush fields of tall grasses, we have to realize that the truth is much bleaker.
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Federal land managers had determined that the 100,000-acre expanse where these horses were grazing produced only enough grasses and water to sustain 70 horses.
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This year, I&aposve taken a different approach to cutting grass: I decided not to panic about the encroaching sea of grasses and let them grow.
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The tall beach grasses and sand dunes back up against historic mansions like Calvin Klein's beach residence — all seen from the comfort of your beach chair.
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Birds like the bobolink, a grassland bird that nests in tall prairie grasses in Illinois and Minnesota, are predicted to move northward into the boreal forest.
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The heat, and accompanying low humidity, exacerbated the usual winter conditions where grasses go dormant and "cure," turning brown until the first big rains of spring.
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Typically, by mid-October the season dies down as the first rains will make the grasses and forests less likely to burn — particularly in Northern California.
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Samples of wheat, barley, and grasses were sent to replace seeds in a gene bank in Aleppo that was damaged in the ongoing Syrian Civil war.
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It also aims to have large-scale domestic production of cellulosic biofuels, which are made from sources such as grasses, trees and crop waste, by 2025.
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She began leading us past tidal pools and along the beach, a mix of silt and peat held together by the thin roots of marsh grasses.
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California Governor Brown is heading to China on Friday to lead a conference of states and other "subnational" actors making voluntary commitments to cut greenhouse grasses.
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He was clipping off shrubs and grasses, sorting them into paper bags to identify what kinds of vegetation were growing and to estimate their relative abundance.
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Augusta National traditionally closes in summer, and playing the tournament in oppressive heat and humidity on grasses better suited to temperate weather would not be ideal.
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Ground fires that once burned slow and low through the grasses on the forest floor grew bigger in the unnaturally heavy load of scrub and timber.
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"These grasses really are a metaphor for the people of Queens, who come from every place on Earth," Ms. Holup told The Daily News in 2005.
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In a few months he will use a controlled burn to stimulate native grasses and wildflowers while controlling hardwoods and shrubs that compete with the pine.
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William Henry Fox Talbot was a botanist, and many of his earliest "photogenic drawings" — they're known as photograms today — depicted leaves, ferns, grasses and other plants.
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As President Bachelet signed the decree creating these parks, a herd of guanacos grazed in the waving grasses and a black-chested buzzard-eagle soared overhead.
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He explained how mowing his grass at specific times of the year supported the growth of native grasses and flowers, food sources for the overwintering butterflies.
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But most of those fox populations are now gone, in part because pesticides like diazinon contaminated birds and grasses the foxes fed on, the agency concluded.
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At my beach, there's only the smudged horizon, a gray blurring of sea and sky, and the winter-gold sea grasses that bend toward the sand.
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Winding paths, just wide enough for two, meandered south, coiling along the waterfront, weaving through thickets of tall bluestem grasses, wetland pools and flowering rose bushes.
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They hiked through mud and tangled grasses along a steep trail to Kalaupapa, a former leper colony on Molokai, where the sick were exiled until 1969.
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For our second big photo shoot, there were these beautiful grasses next door, so at night, I went over with shears and just snipped a bunch.
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Some residents fear being left with a stinking mud flat once the dam is gone, but in fact, dormant seeds quickly become trees, shrubs and grasses.
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Her grasses, sourced primarily from her garden in the Cotswolds, trace the arc of the seasons: delicate in spring, abundant in summer and dried in fall.
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Conventional pasture grazing, with animals pent up in one area, can denude the soil of vital grasses, reducing its carbon dioxide uptake and leading to soil erosion.
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"I don't believe any of the acres currently burning have been impacted by the past fires so the fuel loads [grasses and vegetation] are heavy," said Giusti.
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The time we hired her to design us a garden of grasses, the plans sketched carefully with her landscape architect pencils, labeled in her precise all-caps.
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Designed to slow the movement of water through grasses and soils, they replenished aquifers and springs and helped the grasslands retain more water, allowing biodiversity to flourish.
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A huge number of them live freely or partially roam free and make the most of the resources of the land, where they graze acorns and grasses.
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They found that in the case of at least eight species, there was a relationship between how often wildfires broke out and the presence of invasive grasses.
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In years when California gets enough rain, lowland grasses become potent fuels for fast-moving fires like those that swept through the Los Angeles area last month.
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Those farmers will supply organic alfalfa, grasses and other grains used to feed dairy cows, whose milk will then be eligible for organic certification under federal regulations.
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"I fell hard, like you fall in love," he says now, recalling his instant attraction to the summer community's modern, boxy houses, its shrubby pines and grasses.
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Sue McDonnell, a board member who teaches equine behavior at the University of Pennsylvania, said she opposed euthanasia until she saw the battered grasses and invasive weeds.
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As nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus sullied the bay, much of the underwater life, including grasses and the fish and shellfish that lived inside it, died off.
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Wildfire season is just getting underway, but the recent heatwave, dry conditions and abundant growth of grasses from heavy winter rains is already spelling danger for California.
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This wild land was the main reason my husband, Dan, and I bought the house: We wanted those trees, waters and grasses to be our sons' church.
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A row of rocks was planted near the high tide line to protect the cord grasses from the southwestern winds that blow across the bay in summer.
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The grasses used to be waist high, but the overgrazing of cattle by ranchers has compacted the soil, which has drastically hindered growth and patterns of succession.
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They coordinate tusks, trunks and feet to de-thorn acacia trees and soften tough grasses, and they stash leafy branches across their ivory shelves for later consumption.
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And the peacock-blue leather walls of Paris's Germain Paradiso cinema lounge, embossed with splashy frescoes of grasses and flowers, create the atmosphere of an underwater jungle.
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An April 2018 finding that elevated CO20143 levels lead to "substantial and persistent" declines in the quality of certain prairie grasses that are important for raising cattle.
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Originally built in the late 1990s for the clothing retailer Gap, the campus south of San Francisco is known for its sloped green roof of native grasses.
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"Fire is our main tool," Ms. Lawson said as she inspected a freshly burned patch where grasses had become ash but the trees around them were undamaged.
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Using controlled low flames and the power of the wind, the groups clear grasses and kindling that fuel the more unpredictable blazes that occur during fire season.
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They use carefully controlled low flames and the power of the wind to clear grasses and kindling, the materials that fuel more unpredictable blazes during fire season.
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The blaze grew to about 9,989 square feet and destroyed seven California fan palms and other grasses, bushes and vegetation, the US Attorney's Office's news release said.
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Ethanol is typically made from corn, sugar cane or grasses, which take a lot of land to grow, acreage that some argue is needed to grow food.
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Its spread prompted the EU to require Italy to create a buffer zone—with susceptible trees destroyed and spittlebug-friendly grasses cut—but implementation has been slow.
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There are freshly plucked ornamental grasses by the sink, and four gleaming toilets with sanitary seat covers that rotate between uses with the wave of a hand.
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The delicate arthropod set out to cross the lines of a web that had been laid out to snare a meal among the grasses in a field.
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I made my pilgrimage onto that hiking trail, and there, surrounded by those hills of glorious golden grasses, I silently bade Dr. Wilson thank you, and farewell.
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Despite some rainfall in the spring, the brush and forests around Redding dried out in the triple-digit temperatures this summer, turning grasses and trees into tinder.
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"The cows weren't here before," noted Mr. González, saying they now graze at higher altitudes than before, as they follow the grasses as the temperatures have warmed.
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The self-organizing plant hypothesis stems from theories of plant competition, and the observation that grasses growing in areas with limited access to water exhibit distinctive growth patterns.
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We would prefer to let them live on: There are deep pink French honeysuckles, purple thistles, yellow dandelions, pale pink and white acanthus, and wispy and lazy grasses.
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The ranch house has a cascading storm water and creek purification feature in the courtyard, and native grasses that cleanse rainwater prior to entering the creek and spring.
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Plants with deeper roots and higher wood density are better able to withstand drought, while thicker leaves and taller grasses can cope with higher temperatures, the report found.
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Once the fire exploded, it was fueled by already unusually parched timber and grasses and driven quickly, burning 70,000 acres in is first 24 hours, by excessive winds.
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Farmers have replaced the area's vast seas of grass with more than nine million acres of corn, which transpires at a rate 20 percent higher than indigenous grasses.
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Things start to go badly during my first encounter with a large rat, when the tree to my right catches light along with the grasses next to it.
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It is full of personality and topographies, a stream of asphalt tumbling down canyons and staggered across hillsides, parting tall meadow grasses and shaded by tall solo trees.
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At Cormeille-en-Parisis, in the Paris suburbs, two brand-new roundabouts on near-empty roads are already neatly planted with tulips, spring blooms and whispery architectural grasses.
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Residents should also maintain their "defensible space," or areas within 100 feet of their homes, by pruning branches, small trees, shrubs and grasses at least once every year.
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On a wagon ride from the Pittsfield train station, Melville scribbled the names of all the grasses he knew: redtop, ribbon grass, finger grass, orchard grass, hair grass.
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But the balance between the two types of trees tends to fall apart when livestock infiltrate these forests, because they gravitate toward eating grasses and the deciduous seedlings.
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Like many in this arcadian part of the state, a patchwork of hills and valleys covered by vineyards, forests, and tall grasses, Sullivan works in the wine industry.
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Snipers typically customize their ghillie suits, a kind of concealment clothing into which snipers can weave grasses and other materials, with some vegetation before they start their mission.
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By then, dredging and pumping and draining of the sloughs — the technical term for the shallow, slow-moving water under the grasses — and species decimation was well underway.
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By then, dredging and pumping and draining of the sloughs — the technical term for the shallow, slow-moving water under the grasses — and species decimation was well underway.
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For years, I would pack together large grasses like switchgrass, or flowers like garden phlox (both Level 1 plants) and wonder why they got rust or powdery mildew.
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They found that the composting process — using a large rotating bin and organic materials like grasses — is able to decompose the human bodies until only bones are left.
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The state's five-year drought left extremely dry vegetation and winter rains produced thick grasses, which are now drying out and providing the perfect fuel for massive fires.
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According to renderings from the Future Green Studio in Brooklyn, the perimeter of the roof will be planted with flowers and grasses interspersed with benches and picnic tables.
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Taking in its dense grasses and leaves, which stretch eight feet up the wall, it's easy to imagine houseguests feeling transported to a more tropical sort of shore.
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If you need a powerful mower that is packed full of features and can handle different terrain and grasses, look no further than the Honda HRX217VKA Lawn Mower.
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