Sentence examples for limestone grassland from inspiring English sources

Limestone grassland is not after all uncommon.

The trust has recently reintroduced cattle grazing to maintain the open limestone grassland.

Arnside Knott and Silverdale, Lancashire-Cumbria border Species-rich limestone grassland, woodland, wet meadow, scree, and scrub.

This walk follows the natural limestone grassland through Scratch Arse Ware and surrounding fields to Dancing Ledge – a former quarry that now exists as a stone "dancefloor" ledge.

Sunshine was seeing off all but a few trails of mist as we climbed Swift's Hill, an exceptional area of limestone grassland.

Westley Farm is a mosaic of ancient woodlands, flower-rich hay meadows, and steep banks of limestone grassland spread over 75 acres along the Golden Valley in the Cotswolds.

To the east of Boyle the rich limestone grasslands, known as the Plains of Boyle, are famed as cattle pastures.

Its limestone grasslands are home to Kashmiri goats, subspecies of silver-studded blue and grayling butterflies, and a plant, the wild cotoneaster, found nowhere else on earth.

It has benefited from an ambitious scheme to restore all the limestone grasslands of the Isle of Portland to their pristine state, which meant removing enormous amounts of encroaching scrub, mostly of the invasive garden shrub cotoneaster.

So, through the woods that still, as in Cider with Rosie, ooze "over the lips of the hills like layers of thick green lava" and across limestone grasslands frothing with wildflowers in "a massed entanglement of species", the walker will see the writer's world – literally – through his words.

Terrestrial limestone grasslands similarly carry a much richer flora and fauna than do acidic grasslands [21], while in contrast, serpentine soils are toxic to many species and those that thrive in them are often strict endemics with traits that enhance the tolerance of this condition.