The enclosure was divided into six sectors separated by ca. 30 cm wide short-grass belts (cut 2 cm above ground surface) to enable monitoring of vole mobility.
Following $45 million of recent renovations along the famous mile-and-a-half strip, carpets of velvety grass form a new green belt between Waikiki's sand and asphalt.
During the rainy season, the termites venture into the surrounding grasslands to feed, and in extreme drought seasons they turn to their belt of high grass for sustenance.
This water sink, he thinks, also promotes the characteristic "luxurious belt" of high grass that often grows around the fairy circles' edges, because it does not have to compete with thirsty neighboring plants.
Think what would happen if we restored a portion of the Corn Belt to the tall grass prairie it once was and grazed cattle on it.
The air is full of down that blows towards a pasture where belted Galloway cows tug at the grass.
The parade route passed through a historic area of bungalows with wraparound porches, and then travelled west toward the Dairy Queen in a Latino neighborhood, where teen-agers in ranchero belts and unlaced Timberlands sat on the grass.
This is the so-called hunger belt, where famished villagers survive by eating grass.
Then he steps up and reaches into the truck and pulls out a body by the belt and lets it fall into the grass.
But then four addicts stumble out of the blue port-a-potties in hunchbacked gaits, unloosening their belts from their punctured forearms and sitting by the grass to watch.
The steppe-grass vegetation has been largely ploughed up, and many shelter belts of trees have been planted; in the north are extensive birch groves.
