One narrow, crushed-grass walking path led to the left through high grasses and bushes.
On the outcrop above the bridge, a low wind ruffles the grasses and fronds of ferns.
More than 90% of Loliondo's Maasai depend on rearing livestock on seasonal grasses there.
"If we lose our grasses, that area will shortly become open water, " Bourgeois said.
The grasses are important because they provide food and habitat for fish, birds and other species.
Oyster beds close to shore clarified the water, which allowed marsh grasses to grow.
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Instead of lawns, Ms. Fleming put in lots of natural grasses, gravel courtyards and stone patios.
Most conventional lawn grasses need 30 to 40 mowings a year to maintain their manicured appearance.
Its success was built partly on improving grasses from Africa and cattle from India.
The long grasses so green that they cast a fine, bright green on the brown water.
There was hardly a wind to flutter the bamboo grasses that covered its banks.
We crossed into deep green shadows, heavy with the weight of damp branches, dripping ferns, wet leaves and grasses.
An unusually hot summer in 2010 also caused some grasses to die off in the lower bay.
The ground was then spread with green hay and meadow grasses before about 4, 000 wildflowers were planted.
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By harrowing the ground, they reduced the dominance of grasses and created germination sites for the wildflowers.
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Vast brilliant blue skies, endless savannah grasses and bountiful wildlife: the Serengeti remains the Africa that inspired and captivated Hemingway.
The most common turf grasses in the United States are blues, ryes, bents, fescues, Bermuda, zoysia, centipede, St.
Natural lawns (lawns of nonconventional turf grasses) are adapted to their regional rainfalls, soil types, and climatic conditions.
Fires are deliberately set to burn off long grasses and heather to encourage new grazing for sheep and grouse.
Vegetation edge: place where the vegetation (e.g. grasses, vines) meets the bare sand area of the back beach.
When they hit dry stretches, their animals are at risk from giant anteater holes hidden in the 4-foot-tall grasses.
Grasses are well adapted to fire, being able to resprout quickly from their roots and thus outcompete tree seedlings.
However, he added that eel grasses, which are found in saltier waters lower in the bay, need clear, cooler waters.
In the middle bay, which covers the section between the Bay Bridge and the Potomac River, grasses decreased 28 percent.
In addition to grasses, each region of the country has its own native sedges that will make these natural lawns.
Nature lovers will enjoy the plantings, inspired by the naturally growing grasses and wildflowers that sprouted up after trains stopped running in 1980.
Entering from the road, a short hike down a windy path flanked by wild grasses is required to reach the simple changing hut.
All that changed in the 1880s, when settlers introduced sheep and cattle, which ate the grasses that fuelled the fires.
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He reports how the invertebrates (Psammotermes allocerus) first clear a patch of ground by eating the roots of short-lived, annual grasses.
One learns different types of grasses, those peculiar terraced slopes, and the art of losing the trail and finding it again.
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