Sentence examples for grazing prairie from inspiring English sources

From 1991 to 2005, we measured the effects of moderately grazing prairie species and heavily grazing fertilized yellow bluestem on runoff, sediment yield, leaf litter cover, and aboveground plant biomass for four adjacent watersheds located at the USDA-ARS Southern Plains Range Research Station in the sub-humid Rolling Red Plains of western Oklahoma.

Slightly higher runoff from heavily grazed yellow bluestem relative to moderately grazed prairie may occur due to compaction of both the leaf litter and topsoil.

Cows (549 ± 47.9 kg live weight (LW)) grazed irrigated prairie grass (Bromus willdenowii cv. Matua) and biennial ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum cv. Concord) pastures during the 75-day treatment period, with individual feeding of supplement occurring at the morning (4.0 kg DM) and evening (2.7 kg DM) milkings.

They maintain these grassland habitats, and some large herbivores like bison and pronghorn prefer to graze near prairie dog colonies due to the increased nutritional quality of forage.

The earlier studies have shown that elevated Se can protect plants from arthropod folivore herbivores (grasshoppers, caterpillars), grazing mammalian herbivores (prairie dogs), phloem-feeding arthropods (aphids) and leaf and stem/root fungal pathogens [ 18, 20, 21, 23].

Rainfall thresholds were similar between the moderately grazed prairie watersheds (15 mm) and the heavily grazed yellow bluestem watersheds (18 mm); however, the slope of the rainfall runoff curve from heavily grazed yellow bluestem (0.242) was steeper than that of moderately grazed prairie (0.087).

The best approach, he and others say, is to allow moderate bison or cattle grazing on healthy prairies and track how the ecosystems respond.

The study suggests that cattle grazing might also help prairies.

Ranchers complain that prairie dogs destroy grazing grasses, but conservationists argue that black-footed ferrets, an endangered species, need to eat prairie dogs to survive.

A herd of buffalo grazed on a prairie filled with summer wildflowers bent over double by the wind.

Between York, NE, and McCool Junction, a few cows graze the native prairie.