Thus our grasslands in Britain are unnatural and artificial productions.
Two, the pronghorn and bison, are typical inhabitants of the interior grasslands of North America and might be considered steppe species save for the fact that each has an extensive distribution beyond that region.
Local residents regarded the badger as relatively common in the grasslands of Harding County, although this species was only rarely observed by members of our field parties.
The climate of northwestern South Dakota is characteristic of the northern part of the interior grasslands of North America--that is, the winters are cold and the summers hot and dry.
These grasslands are used extensively for grazing of sheep and cattle.
The Semites found a new and permanent home in Arabia, on whose plateaus and surrounding grasslands they increased and multiplied, and sent off fresh waves of migration and conquest in all directions.
The piedmont zone of grasslands in Turkestan was an ideal land for primitive agriculturists practising a hoe-culture, as at Anau.
There man became comparatively civilized while his contemporaries were still nomadic hunters in the grasslands and the forests.
Then it is interrupted by the grasslands of the Orinoco, but revives again in still greater magnificence in the Guianas.
It is rainfall which determines that vigorous forests shall grow in the Appalachians in latitudes where grasslands prevail in the plains and deserts in the western cordillera.
The borderline between woods and grasslands is well defined but woody plants are rapidly encroaching into the grasslands.
In the spring and summer cottontails forage mostly near woodland edges for grass and herbs, and usually wander no more than 40 feet into the grasslands from the protection of woodland edges and thickets.
There are many hills; there will be many caves in them, and much meat in grasslands nearby.
And beyond the mountains began a level monotony of grasslands that reached to still more mountains forming the boundary to Ammad itself.
First Blood White Bear tried to think only about guiding his brown-spotted white pony over the grasslands and watching his two companions.
Once a raging fire swept over a great stretch of grasslands I was crossing and I was forced to spend many days circling the burned section before I was able to pick up the signs of their passage.
The column of Ammadians were still far out in the grasslands and would need another three hours to reach the game trail where Tharn was standing.
In the southern Palaus, the NAMRU2 party found egrets in August and September on tidal flats and open grasslands at Peleliu and Angaur.
According to him (field notes) the bird inhabits the opengrasslands of Ponape and apparently has somewhat the same habits as other members of the species.
These birds, unlike the Reef Herons, preferred grasslands to beach areas for feeding and were usually seen in sizeable flocks.
Was it likely that Cecil remembered the caustic lash of his father's ironies while he was lifting Mother of Pearl over the posts and rails, and sweeping on, with the halloo ringing down the wintry wind as the grasslands flew beneath him?
The limits of his range correspond to the limits of the grasslands in the dry valley pockets already described (p.
Indeed the best tracts of all extend from Bolivia only a little way into southeastern Peru, and are coincident with the patchy grasslands that are there interspersed with belts of woodland and forest.
Map to show the relation of the grasslands of the dry lower portion of the Urubamba Valley (unshaded) to the forested lands at higher elevations (shaded).
Although thegrasslands are a barrier to further intrusion by the brush mouse into Kansas, one cannot assume that they alone confined the brush mouse to cliffs.
The grasslandsconstitute a barrier for the brush mouse.
West of Mandan US 10 enters that part of the Missouri Plateau known locally as the Missouri Slope, and proceeds over the rolling grasslands typical of this area.
At that time the grasslandsalong the Red River were black with bison, who summered on the grazing lands here, and wintered on the uplands of the Missouri Slope W.
That's why the great healthy herds of animals were found on scrubby, semi-arid grasslands like the American prairies; in comparison, lush forests carry far lower quantities of animal biomass.
Examples are the heart of Spain and of Asia Minor, and the miniature grasslands of the Balkan Peninsula, such as Thessaly and Eastern Thrace.
These usually are grasslands having scattered trees or clumps of trees around depressions, which may contain water throughout the year (Pl.
In most savanna regions in the Americas the grasslands become waterlogged or even partly flooded during the rainy season and desiccated in the dry season.
Voles were taken in all ungrazed and unmown grasslands trapped in eastern Kansas, although some of the areas were not used at all seasons of the year nor in years having a low population of Microtus.
Still higher, the still goodgrasslands are studded now with century plant, basket grass, and sotol.
By 1944, overuse had so stripped the grasslands near Government Spring that you could hardly find a bunch of chino on the bare beige hills.
These rolling grasslands have much less pricklypear and creosotebush, and they have a lower profile than the shrub desert.
Most of the grasslandshave never recovered from overgrazing.
Most of these are springs located within the grasslands on the lower slopes of the Chisos Mountains.
And what a pleasant prospect you still find from the sooted rock shelters above Croton Springs as you look out across the grasslands and the tules at the spring, toward the crenelated wall of the Chisos.
Utterly confused and dejected, he turned and walked slowly through the opening and down the shallow, sandy incline which led to the grasslands below.
And Akar could descend daily to the grasslands in plain sight, as if your messenger to the wolf packs below.
As to the great Nordic race, within relatively recent historic times it occupied the Grasslands north of the Black and Caspian Seas eastward to the Himalayas.
Grasslands and lowing herds are good, But better human flesh and blood!
Grasslands are not wrought, Ploughlands swell with thought.
Hence it produced in the widespread grasslands and deserts of Europe, Asia, and Africa the most perfect types of pastoral development in its natural or nomadic form.
They were therefore differentiated from their nomadic and warlike kinsmen in the grasslands north of the Orange River, which formed the center of the Hottentot area.
For centuries after the settlement of the Jews in Palestine, traces of their pastoral life in the grasslands of Mesopotamia could be discerned in their social and political organization, in their ritual and literature.
The active, simple, uncramped life of the grasslands seems essential to the preservation of the best virtues of the desert-bred.
The Boers in South African grasslands showed the same development.
Moreover, the paucity of economic and political possibilities in deserts and grasslands discourages conquest.
The abstract monotheism sprung from the bare grasslands of western Asia made slow but final headway against the exuberant forest gods of the early Germans.
Large sections of that country are grasslands or veld, as the people there call it.
Usually, but not always, thesegrasslands are not found near the coast, where, as in America, the rainfall is double that of the plains and produces the forests that clothe the Atlantic and Pacific sections of the country.
Tree seedlings cannot survive this, and we know that the Indians fired huge tracts of prairie every year, not to mention fires started by lightning which may set fire to grasslands and actually does set fire to forests every year.
Many grasslands have a stand of dandelions; sow thistle, wild lettuce, and ragweed were also common in some grasslands.
Voles in grasslands feed in runways, as attested by the piles of cuttings found in the runways and the nibbled grass which borders them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grasslands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
