Sentence examples for prairie roots from inspiring English sources

The deep prairie roots of native grasses like Virginia wild rye and native fescue, Mr. Apfelbaum said, will cut runoff by an estimated 50percentt more than in lawn-intensive developments of similar size.

He struggled to fight off a Tea Party challenger in a Republican primary in August, after his new, fire-breathing style dismayed old admirers, failed to convince hardline critics and did little to quell grumbles that he has forgotten his prairie roots.

Daphne Marlatt reinvented a fishing and canning town's past in Steveston (1974), and Robert Kroetsch explored his Prairie roots in Field Notes (1981)—both important examples, along with Bowering's Kerrisdale Elegies (1984), of the serial long poem, another variation on the documentary mode.

What is amazing to me is that prairie grass roots go deep, as deep as 15 feet.

Our findings suggest that growing season Rs increases with tallgrass prairie age, root biomass, and ANPP during young grassland development.

In a continuous-pea rotation grown in the Canadian prairie, severe Fusarium root rot injury was related to a reduced soil microbial community and lower abundance of beneficial Gram positive bacteria and AM fungi [ 165].

Since native prairie species have intricate root structures that remain unaffected by fire (while non-native species burn and die), you can expect the prairie plants to begin returning after one or two weeks.[6].

ON the east side of the city, the same native plants that fill the Stanleys' green roof are sending down much deeper roots in the Mueller Prairie, a restored 30-acre fragment of the Texas Blackland Prairie, which once sprawled across 15 million acres.

David Adams Richards's novels depict the bleakness of New Brunswick communities (Lives of Short Duration, 1981; Nights Below Station Street, 1988; Mercy Among the Children, 2000), while Guy Vanderhaeghe's fiction has its roots in the Prairies (The Englishman's Boy, 1996).

The Will Rogers Polo Club plays public matches here on weekends, starting May 6. Rogers' love of polo was rooted in his prairie upbringing.

Deeply rooted in his prairie lands, the venerable Wes Jackson of the Land Institute calls for any wanderlust for innovations to eventually get back home: "I'm not going to leave here," he says, looking at his fields and river in Kansas.