Collocations withprairie
These are words often used in combination withprairie.
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coastal prairie
In the absence of grazing and/or fire, many areas of coastal prairie are being lost to shrub and tree encroachment.
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open prairie
From the open prairie, where there is no cultivation at all.
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prairie chicken
They developed and initiated a management plan based on their observation that the prairie chicken required a checkerboard pattern of habitat.
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prairie ecosystem
Small-scale agriculture had only a minor impact on the region, and the prairie remained primarily a plain/prairie ecosystem.
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prairie fire
Like a prairie fire the flames are spreading far and wide and turning into a conflagration.
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prairie grassland
The terrain is largely sandy and flat and was historically prairie grassland and oak savannah.
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prairie restoration
A backyard prairie restoration will enrich soil, help with erosion and take up extra water in excessive rainfalls.
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prairie vole
She pioneered the physiological study of socially monogamous mammals, including the prairie vole.
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rolling prairie
It was founded in 1963 to preserve some of the remaining rolling prairie which previously covered much of the state.
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wet prairie
Frontiersmen also dug ditches through the clay to partly drain the wet prairie for pastureland.
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