Sentence examples for patch of prairie from inspiring English sources

Would a buyer share the pride I've taken in my tiny patch of prairie?

Biological complexity and diversity sound like abstractions, until you see a patch of prairie beside the monotony of a soybean field, a whole county of soybean fields.

It is a time-consuming, intensive and expensive process, said Betsy Gulotta, a biology professor at Nassau Community College who is the project manager for the patch of prairie on campus.

Two hundred people followed, making their daily walk a mile up a rural highway to a patch of prairie grass and excavated dirt that has become a new kind of battlefield, between a pipeline and American Indians who say it will threaten water supplies and sacred lands.

At least 15 more were in the 3 range — and all were centered within a few miles of each other, in a patch of prairie about 100 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, according to the USGS.

You could almost be outdoors, looking at Mr. Gober's sculptures on a patch of artificial prairie.

Others, like viceroys, regal fritillaries and tiger swallowtails, are "habitat sensitive," rarely venturing far from a patch of virgin prairie.

The bison are just part of APR's mission, which is to return its patch of Montana prairie to its pre-19th-century state.

Their animals graze the "bunch grasses" that were native throughout the prairie when the buffalo roamed and that Mr. Price reintroduced on his ranch after admiring their resilience on a small patch of virgin prairie left on his property.

"We actually have a little patch of intact prairie, if you will," he said, standing among tufts of tall grass just a few miles west of the proposed highway.

On March 27, however, Karl Umiker, a University of Idaho research support scientist, working with Shan Xu, a graduate student from Chengdu, China, discovered two giant Palouse earthworms, a juvenile and an adult, on a small patch of native prairie near Moscow, Idaho.