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569 documents for grassland ecosystem

- The Granddaddy of All Collaboration Groups
[Nathan Sayre], who once worked for the Malpai group, introduces us to the wonderful palette of characters who pooled their talents in the early 1990s to fight exurban sprawl and restore a rare grassland ecosystem. They include Jim Corbett, a former Sanctuary Movement leader who helped guide Central American refugees through the desert into the U.S.; Drum Hadley, the poetry-loving heir to the Anheuser-Busch fortune, who relishes putting cowboys and conservationists in the same room; Warner and Wendy Glenn, fourth-generation ranchers and hunting guides with a soft spot for the elusive jaguars that occasionally cross over from Mexico; and a "lanky, pale and bespectacled" New Englander named John Cook. Cook, a Nature Conservancy employee, gained the trust of the ranchers and helped them pr...
- High Country News
- August 18, 2009
- 7 CFR 1415.3 - Definitions.
...PART 1415: GRASSLANDS RESERVE PROGRAM. 1415.3 - Definitions. Activity m... attributes that sustain and enhance ecosystem functions and values of the grassland area includi...
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 7: Agriculture
- Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:
...'s pipits will use nonnative planted grassland (Higgins et al. 2002, pp. 46-47; Dechant et al. 19...Chihuahuan desert region, an ecosystem extending across the border between the United Sta...
- FR, September 15, 2010
- Proposed rules
- Fish and Wildlife Service

- State of New Mexico v. Bureau of Land Management, (10th Cir. 2009)
... of undisturbed Chihuahuan Desert grassland in the United States. From 1998 to 2004, the Burea... several habitats comprising this desert ecosystem is the Chihuahuan Desert grassland, much of which ...
- Federal Circuits
- Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:
...Although often thought of as a grassland species, the mountain plover may best be described... grasslands formerly presented a diverse ecosystem, shaped by low precipitation, grazing, and fire. T...
- FR, May 12, 2011
- Proposed rules
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- The national grassland and disappearing biodiversity: can the prairie dog save us from an ecological desert?
... the American prairie was a thriving ecosystem that encompassed one-third of the North American c...
- Environmental Law
- Vol. 29 Nbr. 1, March 1999
- Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:
... are known to be top predators in their ecosystem. (Service 2008, p. 1.4-5) and are dependent on the...Woodland-Grassland Community. Because of the various roles played by ...
- FR, February 22, 2011
- Proposed rules
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Relocating a Crucial Piece of the Prairiepuzzle Puzzle ; Wyoming's Grasslands Were Once a Sea of Wildlife, but Now They're Desolate. While This May Seem Like a Fuzzy Tale About Saving a Colony of Prairie Dogs, It's Actually a Story About Reviving the Species That Eat the Prairie Dogs.
Story and photos by Shauna Stephenson sstephenson@wyomingnews.com

... for the Thunder Basin Grassland Prairie Ecosystem Association. The long-term comparison of cost for ...
- Wyoming Tribune - Eagle
- August 01, 2010
- Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:
... the area has been converted to annual grassland dominated by two nonnative grass species, Bromus t... in the fire-maintained longleaf pine ecosystem within west- central Louisiana and extreme east-ce...
- FR, November 10, 2010
- Proposed rules
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Sunrise: Women Accused in Toddler's Near-Drowning Due in Court
A judge could decide Friday whether two Colorado Springs women will go to trial in the attempted murder of a toddler who was bound with tape and left in a shower until she nearly drowned. The girl's mother, Samantha Salaz, and Salaz's aunt, Mary Horsley, also face felony child abuse charges in the April 7 incident in central Colorado Springs.

... destroy the area's rare and fragile ecosystem. Otero Mesa is the largest publicly owned expanse of undisturbed Chihuahuan Desert grassland in the United States. Environmentalists have spent...
- Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
- May 06, 2011