prairie

Growing our food on land that used to be intact forests and prairies is killing the planet, setting up the processes of our own extinction.

And for a while we looked on the prairies of Minnesota , where actually there is a very high proportion of centenarians .

He transformed woodlands and prairies into farmland, turn rivers into lakes and reservoirs, used for irrigation and hydroelectric power.

DURING the Depression of the 1930s, drought turned much of Alberta and Saskatchewan, on Canada's western prairies, into a dust bowl.

From the mountains, to the prairies from the desert to the sea, I'd say California, it means nothing to me.

We are wont to forget that the sun looks on our cultivated fields and on the prairies and forests without distinction.

Wind across the prairies and off the east coast of Nova Scotia can generate electricity.

nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest.

a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century.

'I'm not sure the fate of our country is going to be determined on the prairies of Afghanistan, ' he said.

Dan Laramee walks between grain railway cars as he loads wheat from the Canadian prairies at the Pioneer grain elevator in Alberta, Oct.

Quebec's Forillon National Park protects a range of varied ecosystems, including natural prairies, seaside cliffs, lakes, and marshes.

Over time, the vast prairies the orcs had called home for generations withered away, leaving only red barren soil.

The Indian was emotionally attached to his mountains, valleys, or prairies.

For two hours we were sometimes led over plains of sand, sometimes over prairies of seaweed that were quite arduous to cross.

As an autumn gray settles, I stand in the middle of one of the last wildflower prairies in America.

They've plowed up tenacious old prairies, where trees rarely grew, then left the seedlings and the topsoil to blow away.

any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry.

Grain inspector Jim Dolan inspects wheat from the Canadian prairies at the Pioneer grain elevator in Carseland, Alberta.

More than half of the monitored bird species that live on prairies have experienced population losses.

She gives up the glamour to breathe the clean, dry air of the prairies.

In his youth, my father saw this prophecy come true with his eyes -- the white men bringing their families in wagons across the prairies.

When European settlers moved west across America, they found that the prairies made excellent farmland.

Part of America's prairies, the firm hopes, will revert to grassland and provide the cellulose that biofuels will need.

The Black Hills is a hilly region of pine forests, caves, lakes, canyons, and prairies that, from a distance, looks black.

"Savages scour the Prairies; We thought it best, therefore, to escort you on your road. "

Building a railway across the Prairies to the Pacific coast .

When Indians travel across the prairies; they go in Indian file .

From the bottom to the top, there are different biospheres, such as alpine prairies, alpine forests, meadows, glaciers and permanent snow.

Continuing into the West, the plane flies over vast prairies and rough cattle-gazing country.

Machines have steadily plowed under wildflower prairies until none are left except the tiny patch I'm standing in.

Of course, this extends to the wheat prairies of Kansas, the tea gardens of Assam, the copper mines of Zambia and other far-flung places.

The cold front drives the storm south across the prairies.

One of the world's breadbaskets lies in the prairies of Canada.

the pioneers' trail across the prairies.

Like you, we inherited a vast land of endless skies, tall mountains, rich fields, and open prairies.

American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides.

It was spring-time, and the warm winds blew over the prairies laden with the scent of wild flowers.

The plane flies over vast prairies and rough cattle-grazing country.

large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America.

This is how the prairies were built , the relationship between bison and grasses .

The soil of the Illinois prairies is fat, rich and thick.

The nonnatives have now taken over some Midwestern forests, prairies and wetlands.

The dead level of the prairies renders traveling over them tedious.

Before Europeans came to America, huge numbers of bison roamed free on the prairies -- about 30 million!

But for the most part it is as solitary where I live as on the prairies .

"The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. " This is a hilarious, poignant and exceptionally well-written memoir of childhood on the Canadian prairies.

They've seen the prairies in Xinjiang.

In the last 40 years, populations of birds living on prairies, deserts and at sea have declined between 30 percent and 40 percent.

The nature here is none other than his beloved Siberian forests and prairies, the land uncontaminated by modern civilization.

Yea, because you have the prairies, the plains, the Amber waves of grain.

I AM the buffalo that roams the prairies.

Have you been to the prairies in North America?

A dragonfly lands on a stalk of wheat ready for harvest at sunset on the Canadian prairies near Vulcan, Alberta

Influence of cultivation on organic carbon in three typical soils of China Loess Plateau and Canada Prairies

of them wolves, them mustangs, those endless prairies

The prairies fail along Chicago. Past the five

On the Tungus in Eurasian Prairies