It was to this land of grasses that Coronado, mesmerized by the glint of the sun on their stalks, ventured in 1541 in search of gold.
Though the band actually hail from Beijing, they take their name from the central steppes of Asia which roughly translates as "beloved land of grasses, white clouds and blue skies".
For instance, from 1986 to 2014, 5 ha of forest, 70 ha of shrub land, 229 ha of cultivated and rural settlement land, 38 ha of grass land and 8 ha of wet land was converted to bare land even though there was afforestation and reforestation efforts by the local government since 1991 in the study areas as it was reported from interview.
Similarly the expansion of this LULC type in the second period (1986 2014) was due to the conversion of 251 ha of forest, 1465 ha of shrub land, 308 ha of grass land, 35 ha of bare land and 193 ha of wet land to cultivated and rural settlement land (Table 5).
This cycle stopped in the late 1800's, Dr. Allen said, when early ranchers brought cows, goats and sheep whose heavy grazing left the land shorn of grass.
We distinguished between land uses of grass and agriculture, sealed surfaces, forest and water bodies.
Not anyone can have one though you'll need at least half an acre of land, plenty of grass, and a large fence, Reuters reported.
Two hundred acres of ranch land does not mean 200 acres of grass, he explained.
Next to the old schoolhouse, lovingly converted by Alison and Keith Hatton, was a kind of landing strip of grass, ideal for a campervan, sheltered behind a windbreak of trees – with perfect views of Mount Dobson and Fox Peak, both snow-capped, even in summer.
We find that our product agrees well with the tree fraction derived from high-resolution images for natural vegetation regions, and can reproduce the distinctive land cover pattern of grass and bare soil in the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land cover product.
Elevated train tracks running to the old city swing right by the building; swaths of undeveloped land with tufts of grass and mounds of dirt extend to the south.
