The authors then skip to recent years, when a conservation effort in northern Mexico has created a protected grassland reserve that is home to a growing population of prairie dogs and other grassland-dwellers.
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Also, the way the grassland is fertilized causes greenhouse gas emissions.
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More than 700 million breeding birds disappeared across 31 grassland species.
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Another 300,000 acres are grassland in New Mexico used for cattle.
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The Grassland Alliance already has some experience in protecting this habitat.
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You just stare at the waterfall or grassland or mossy lava bed.
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This part of Texas is flat grassland dotted with scrubby mesquite trees.
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More than half our grassland birds have disappeared, 717 million in all.
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The Castle Mountains National Monument will protect desert grassland teeming with Joshua trees.
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Open grassland then gave way to seemingly endless obstacle courses of lava rock.
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Still, lifting the ban is backed by China's powerful State Forestry and Grassland Administration.
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This particular suit is designed for woodland or grassland environments, Fort Benning told Insider.
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There is still plenty of grassland here, or veld, as South Africans call it.
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In China, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration did not respond to written questions.
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Per regulations, there shouldn&apost be more than two pigs per hectare of grassland.
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Grassland species have suffered the biggest declines by far, having lost 717 million birds.
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Grassland species have suffered the biggest declines by far, having lost 717 million birds.
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Farmland, transformed into grassland, has become a perfect habitat for wild boars and foxes.
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At Makye Ame, shiitake mushrooms are used in lieu of the rare Tibetan grassland mushroom.
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But one probable culprit is grassland habitat loss in Canada due to agriculture, MacPhail speculated.
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He hems the animals into a rectangular patch of grassland with a low-current wire.
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When the salt marsh is drained and walled off from the tide it becomes grassland.
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Just beyond this man-made parking spot are acres of grassland and the occasional tree.
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The uptick in crop agriculture and development have eaten away at grassland birds' natural home.
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Neglected grassland, which is often perceived as unattractive, could also be valuable for nature conservation.
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Nothing repopulates; forests don't grow back or expand, neither do farms, and grassland tiles do nothing.
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A lot of it was grassland used for cattle ranching or mountainous areas where miners operated.
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Increasingly arid climes would likely mean that drier grassland savannah would replace rainforest, the research concluded.
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It's hard to tell if a grassland-dependent bird will be able to survive among trees.
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Their wild relatives were out in the grassland in large numbers, just like on Slabbert's farm.
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He considers himself a farmer of grassland and carbon, with bison a byproduct of good land conservation.
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It came by the truckload to eastern Montana last summer when flames destroyed huge swaths of grassland.
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Today, the park looks like an untouched grassland, with rolling hills, expansive greenery, and plenty of wildlife.
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All of these adaptations add up to a predator superbly suited to its mountain and grassland habitat.
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A dense forest might hold up to 150 tonnes of carbon per hectare, grassland about 35 tonnes.
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Mid-tempo tracks of grassland, beach and sometimes desert levels put me in the right mind-set.
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And we're still losing about 2 million milkweeds each year, particularly when farmers convert grassland to cropland.
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Grassland birds have been hit the hardest, showing a 53% reduction (more than 720 million) in population.
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The study also says that grassland feeding could potentially slow the birds' reproduction over the long term.
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Instead, Gorongosa's bushbuck are grazing in open grassland, with all the cockiness of African buffalos or zebras.
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Lakes are drying out, bogs are turning into forests and forests seem likely to give way to grassland.
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Grassland and prairies are natural buffers, protecting waterways from pollution; the destruction of these habitats increases fertilizer runoff.
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Grassland birds like sparrows and meadowlarks experienced the greatest total population loss since 1970, according to the data.
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Like other grassland birds, the bobolink is declining as it loses its native grassy habitat to human development.
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Other parts of the land have been turned into parks and common areas featuring grassland, woodlands and wetlands.
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CNN accompanied the teams Thursday as they plowed through steep muddy lanes to reach area of lush grassland.
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For example, the "retire livestock and restore grassland'' program is also referred to as the "herder settlement'' program.
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Scientists can reliably measure shifts in populations from a common baseline: when fetid landfill turned to bucolic grassland.
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It's also considering ways to sequester carbon through nature-based solutions like forestry, wetland restoration, and grassland conservation.
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The farm is fenced off, and he feeds his cows on dry, over-grazed grassland flanked by a graveyard.
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They can spread at speeds of seven to ten miles per hour in forests and even faster over grassland.
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YAKS graze on grassland near the turquoise waters of Karakul, a lake in the far western region of Xinjiang.
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In Wales, a number of archaeological sites have suddenly appeared in fields of ripening crops and rain-starved grassland.
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Henderson's family has farmed in Besters, a cattle district of rolling grassland hills and acacia trees, for five generations.
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The surrounding rock had formed from grassland soil, which didn't contain stones the size and shape of the tools.
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Then, more than 20 million years ago, their habitat in North America started to shift from forest to grassland.
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This is the largest grassland in the city, but it got a reputation for grisly murders in the 1980s.
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The tower, set in rolling grassland on his 2390-acre farm, was overgrown with vines snaking up its pylons.
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Situated east of San Luis Obispo, the 50-mile long grassland has been lit up by rain-fed wildflowers.
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Later you helped plan and run Pierre Auger, an array of detectors spread across 3,000 square kilometers of Argentinian grassland.
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The Four Seasons Serengeti has three amazing restaurants where the food is just as good as the sweeping grassland views.
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Marine Park, with its 530 acres of grassland and salt marshes near Jamaica Bay, is the largest park in Brooklyn.
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In the board game Wingspan, published on Friday, players assign birds with various powers to wetland, grassland and forest habitats.
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Removing a natural grassland or forest to plant a crop could have negative consequences for endangered species and ecosystem services.
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Near the Devil's Throat, a giant sinkhole over a hundred feet deep, grassland is being restored after wildfires in 103.
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China's State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine did not respond to requests to comment.
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In Wales, for example, a number of archaeological sites have suddenly appeared in fields of ripening crops and rain-starved grassland.
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Click here to view original GIFWatching hundreds of sheep get herded around the grassland from above is a pretty magnificent view.
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NINE THOUSAND years ago the Sahara desert was a grassland, inhabited by hunters who made rock paintings of hippos and giraffes.
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He then ends up in what looks to be an African grassland where a creepy horned woman stares at the camera.
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A greener tundra, as plants get bigger and leafier, with shrubs and trees taking over grassland or tundra, satellite data shows.
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Around 30% to 40% of the earth's surface is natural grassland, and Teague says the potential for food security is immense.
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We drove deeper into the park through acacia groves and rolling grassland, spotting baboons, klipspringers, reedbucks and warthogs along the road.
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During the last century, its prairie grassland habitat in Texas and Louisiana was plowed to create space for farmlands and cities.
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When grassland or forests are converted into cropland large amounts of carbon that was previously sequestered is released into the air.
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Though grassland and forest birds alike experienced a loss in total population across the board, wetland birds were a notable outlier.
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The cause of the fire, which began on Thursday and has been burning through grassland and pine forest, is not known.
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But Messi's favorite pastime is climbing on the toilet window and staring out of it at the vast grassland surrounding the apartment.
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Its surrounding geography is called the Gran Sabana, and got its name for its savanna-like qualities and vast expanses of grassland.
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The combination of poor harvest yields and shriveled grassland has led to spiraling costs for animal feed, putting pressure on livestock farms.
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The steppe is a belt of grassland that runs from modern-day Hungary through Ukraine and Central Asia then east to China.
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The dynamic relationship between pasture, grassland and trees creates greater carbon sequestration, more water retention, less if any erosion, and more biodiversity.
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At stake are 250 million acres of grassland, steppe, desert, and forest that BLM oversees, along with the agency's 700 million subsurface
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The loss of grassland birds in North America is similar to a decline in farmland birds across Europe, according to the study.
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"Fire is a common practice for grassland weed control, but allied to this, there has been an advance in deforestation," he said.
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Seeking to minimise the threat, firefighters safely burned grassland around homes to remove fuel, said NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.
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However, as humans thin forests, turn grassland into farms, and build homes in previously untouched areas, landscapes can become more prone to burning.
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This part of Namibia is the transition point between desert and grassland ecosystems, and there isn't enough water to sustain continuous vegetation cover.
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Rough Magic is the story of that race — 219 days on 226 ponies, over 1000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland — and it's absolutely riveting.
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The 480-square-kilometer grassland park houses the world's biggest population of the rare one-horned rhino, and had 2,400 at last count.
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In Ecuador, for example, a non-government organization sued to prevent a pine tree plantation from being erected in a native grassland ecosystem.
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Interim Williamson County superintendent Jason Golden on Friday announced that Dyson, 43, is the new permanent principal at Grassland Middle School in Franklin.
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"If we turn this place into a grassland, we're going to be seeing fire every other year in individual locations," said Dr. D'Antonio.
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The book's elements work together unusually well, with cumulative verses mirroring the interrelated nature of the grassland ecosystem without being simplistic or corny.
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There are around 300 wild elephants in the park, which covers more than 2,000 square km (772 square miles) of forest and grassland.
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People were told to evacuate if they could, or seek shelter and avoid bush or grassland where it was too late to leave.
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"Grassland birds are some of hardest hit, along with birds like the red-winged blackbird that prefer farmland and rural landscapes," Rosenberg said.
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At the Khunjerab Pass, what once was verdant grassland covered with patches of purple wildflowers is giving way to muddy, tourist-trampled grass.
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The film's protagonist, named Joe Hill (and played by a real artist, Anri Sala), lives alone in a trailer on empty scrub-grassland.
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Shorebirds have also lost one-third of their population, and grassland birds lost more than 720 million, resulting in a 53% population reduction.
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The company said it will invest in technology that removes carbon emissions from the atmosphere, as well as wetland restoration and grassland conservation.
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We've all heard of grass-fed beef, but here's a new twist: beef that doesn't trample the habitats or nests of grassland birds.
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Alpine regions are also highly sensitive to changes in temperature, and grassland regions are most sensitive to variations in water availability, the study found.
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They see bison as a special protein source unto itself that should be raised as part of a system that restores and preserves grassland.
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Firefighters battling a 30,000-acre (12,000-hectare) grassland fire in northeastern Colorado extended containment lines to 80 percent of the blaze's perimeter on Tuesday.
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Wildfires are chewing across dried-out Western forests and grassland, putting 2017 on track to be among the worst fire seasons in a decade.
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The remaining grassland is knit through with deep roots likened to an "underground forest" that also locks large amounts of carbon in the soil.
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"This was all grassland," said Edgar García, a member of the town council, pointing at a new public plaza that was opened last year.
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Its 170,000 acres comprise grassland, forests, rivers, meadows, canyons and snow-capped peaks at the crossroads of three mountain ranges — at least, for now.
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They all thrive in what ecologists call young forest, an ecosystem halfway between grassland and what comes to mind when thinking of a forest.
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Security was tight but jovial, and after a bag search, we strode across some grassland to reach the path leading up to the church.
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Give it a few summers without fire, and it would push forward and overwhelm the grassland again, as it had taken the Maya cities.
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Haupt said Friday the fire is burning through grassland, oak and smaller brush and that it has destroyed several homes and killed livestock and horses.
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At community meetings, locals echo the campaigners' views, blaming tree-cutting for unpredictable rainfall in the north, where clusters of trees stud the tangled grassland.
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Northern Uganda is known for its rich grassland with shrubs and trees but you wouldn't know it standing in the middle of the Palabek camp.
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In the Inner Mongolia region, more than 200 firefighters are battling a grassland fire that has crossed over to northern China from Mongolia, Xinhua reported.
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A fairy circle consists of a region of grassland that's completely devoid of grass and bordered by a bushy circumference of unusually robust grass growth.
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Instead of animals caged in a boxcar on their way to a circus, the animals are now roaming free -- side-by-side in a grassland.
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I also spent a decent amount of time just looking out the window, as the scenery gradually morphed from flat grassland to sharp mountain peaks.
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Brazil's Cerrado -- a "mosaic" habitat made up of savannah, grassland and forest -- is the world's most biodiverse such region, and spans around 83 million hectares.
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In 20 Minute Metropolis, when you finish digging up a mountain, harvesting farmland, or cutting down a forest, the tile converts to a blank grassland tile.
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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 presence of sand termites doesn't really prove anything, nor do termites explain the large size of the circles and their regular spacing across the grassland.
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Mimicking the migration Before settlers arrived with their guns and wagons, this part of what is now South Africa's Free State province was an immense grassland.
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It offered farmers a combination of commodity price supports and supply controls while seeking to reverse the catastrophic damage to soil and grassland caused by overproduction.
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The spiders are looking for undisturbed prairie rangelands -- much like those offered by Comanche National Grassland in southeast Colorado -- because that's where females are often found.
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A graph illustrated by the NYT also shows that grassland birds have taken the biggest hit, with 717 million birds or more than 50 percent gone.
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But Carmel-by-the-Sea has a country cousin — a vast expanse of grassland, forest and chaparral-covered hills a few miles in from the coast.
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Abigail Breuer, program director for the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network (WFEN), which certifies wildlife- and predator-friendly meat and other products, praised the Grassland Alliance's efforts.
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Cattle take longer to mature and farming requires large amounts of land, but China's rapid urbanisation over the past decade has reduced the availability of quality grassland.
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The replacement of forests by grassland is thought by some anthropologists to have encouraged the evolution of humanity's ancestors away from tree-climbing and towards the bipedalism.
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Montana's firefighters by Monday had partially brought under control a 15-square-mile wildfire, which had gobbled up pine and grassland as its fuel, the N.W.C.G. said.
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The US Forest Service webpage describes the Pawnee grassland as a unique environment that supports bird species, especially during migration, including Colorado's state bird the lark bunting.
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Montana (CNN) In Southwest Montana, beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains, is a 113,28-acre plot of rugged grassland called the Flying D Ranch.
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The bird-safe beef—bearing the logo of Alianza del Pastizal ("Grassland Alliance")—is currently for sale in two grocery stores in the city of Porto Alegre.
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