The researchers counted plant types and amount of cover in 180 one-meter-square plots in four prairie types in the Western United States and also in 200 plots in forests and meadows in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Their clothes were almost like Little House on the Prairie-type attire.
Mr. Wright showed a group of visitors the Usonian House, a plywood and brick mockup of a prairie-type Wright house that dates from 1900.
And those big, prairie-type fields harbour no insect life at all.' At the vegetable plot itself, my zoology lesson continues.
This type of locomotive was originally developed for use on the flat terrain of the prairie, such as the Great Plains of Kansas and surrounding states, and thus it was referred to as a Prairie-type locomotive.
In Paynes Prairie, the type locality, 82 of 178 animals examined were infected with 1 to 50 (average 10) worms, but in Cedar Key only a single rat contained one worm.
On Rottnest Island, a few miles off the coast of Perth and reachable by ferry, is a large population of quokkas, a small prairie dog-type animal that is friendly and amusing.
There were also three black-tailed prairie dogs, several types of tortoise, five ornate horned frogs, an iguana, a gecko and a degu, a small rodent endemic to central Chile.
The ferrets also seem to have overcome the problems of disease and low prey availability (their main food source, a type of prairie dog, is not very abundant and hibernates in the winter).
The Frederick C. Robie house, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, is known as the greatest example of Wright's Prairie styled homes, a type of architecture that is considered most uniquely American, and is recognizable by long horizontal lines thought to invoke the prairie landscape.
Notable types include prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis), the only venomous species in the park; boreal chorus frogs (Pseudacris triseriata maculata), known for the loud call of the males during breeding season; and blotched tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum), which are common in fishless lakes and ponds.
