The new gun loads look promising for upland game as well as for waterfowling and even target applications. |
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Overgrazing on upland pastures is causing the decline of native species including skylarks, curlews and dotterels. |
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If you hunt upland game birds within the range of sage grouse, be sure your target is not a sage grouse. |
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But these upland areas were susceptible to lightning strike and crown fires may have spread rapidly. |
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Amta payments are available for barley, corn, upland cotton, oats, rice, sorghum, and wheat. |
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Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography. |
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The rich lowland planter and the upland tobacco farmer have rubbed shoulders more or less amicably for a very long time. |
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The great expanses of the open fields were replaced by hedges, fences, and, in upland areas, dry stone walling. |
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This flora of the fells is found in upland pastures, on barren and dry soil, in heathland and on ledges. |
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In a separate component of this study, more invertebrates were trapped in upland arrays but most were Collembola. |
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On the whole, the upland species are very poorly represented, and the same may be said of the especially hygrophilous section of the family. |
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Both layers are present in hydroponically and aeroponically grown roots and in upland and paddy rice varieties. |
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These results suggest that both hydrologic cycle and upland development are important in limiting the local distribution of this species. |
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There are chapters that walk women through various hunts such as upland game, deer, waterfowl, wild turkey and antelope. |
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Fed by upland streams, its brackish waters supported a wide variety of life. |
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Sulphurous yellow sphagnum moss made a dayglo splash against the dull greens and browns of the sunless upland bog. |
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Wetland creation attempts are often initiated by the removal of upland surface soil materials exposing mineral subsoil strata. |
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The average well-bred field setter can stylishly handle grouse and woodcock, and other upland game birds as well. |
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Hardy traditional cattle breeds would have been a common sight on the upland farms of the Dales many years ago. |
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The golden plover breeds in short vegetation on upland heaths and peat bogs and adults also travel each day to feed on nearby pastures. |
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He had ninety-six acres to leave to his three sons, including hayfields in thirty-seven locations, from salt marsh to upland fields. |
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The traditional cattle are hardy breeds which can cope with the tough upland climate. |
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We have investigated the influence of management practice on the species composition of upland calcicolous grassland. |
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Within the valley, the upland soils have been formed almost exclusively from limestone and calcareous shales. |
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This habitat extends partway up the adjacent slopes, while upland forest occupies the upper slopes and ridge tops. |
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When possible, grasslands found to be used by upland sandpipers should be managed to avoid disturbance during the nesting season. |
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Other mowed strips, such as along roadways, are used by upland sandpipers and other birds for feeding. |
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A narrow neck of land at the southeast corner of the peninsula connects it with the adjacent upland. |
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The definition of unenclosed upland is still under discussion with the European Commission. |
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The moors are a huge open, treeless upland area covered in heather whose purple flowers can be seen from space when they bloom in late August. |
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The upland plateau known as the sierra represents about one-fourth of Peru's land and holds a majority of the country's population. |
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Western ragweed provides forage for deer and the fruits are an important food source for upland game birds, wild turkeys and songbirds. |
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But until the recent innovations, the slow ginning rate for upland cotton made it economically infeasible to use anything but saw-gin stands. |
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Severe wind and water erosion of the topsoil added to the degradation of the natural habitats, particularly on upland sites. |
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For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity. |
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It is characterized by large sand seas, eroded mountain ranges, and upland mesas. |
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This species, typical of mesic to dry-mesic upland forests, has wind-dispersed seeds and evidently readily invades barrens. |
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Farther upland, usually between 3,000 and 5,000 feet, is chaparral, where scrub oaks, manzanitas, and various other shrubs join cacti and yuccas. |
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Generally, they are marginal and powerless people, often with no security of land tenure and inhabiting mainly the upland areas. |
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The upland stamp would be required of those hunting doves, quail, pheasants and other upland birds. |
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Taro can be grown in paddy fields or in upland situations where watering is supplied by rainfall or by supplemental irrigation. |
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Ohio Revised Code states that land lost by erosion but regained by avulsion, reverts ownership back to the upland property owner. |
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The latter initiative is expected to restore 250,000 acres of habitat for species such as upland ducks, pheasants and sandhill cranes. |
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Arapaho Prairie represents typical upland dry sandhills prairie, with steep slopes grading into undulating dunes and flat valleys. |
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In their preferred upland habitat, taeniodonts could have been much more common than the fossil record reflects. |
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Just as impressive is its surrounding 90,000 acres of upland sagebrush steppe, which once predominated in the Columbia Basin. |
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We have sampled loessic soils with a truck-mounted soil probe from more than 70 stable undisturbed upland positions from Nebraska to Illinois. |
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Horses, on the mainland and in the archipelagos, were mainly raised in the upland, cool and lightly populated valleys. |
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It has been introduced into upland areas where some populations are landlocked. |
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Nonetheless, we did not detect differences in species diversity between the floodplain and upland landforms. |
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Of the total 189 plots sampled, 56 were on floodplain landforms and 133 were on upland landforms. |
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I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood. |
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Common upland tree species were white pine, red pine, hemlock, sugar maple, and yellow birch. |
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What if you're like me and only occasionally hunt waterfowl and mostly hunt upland birds like dove, quail, chukar and shoot recreational skeet and sporting clays? |
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Its habitat is generally upland meadows or woods in mountainous areas. |
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The Ministry of Agriculture and The Journal of Applied Ecology, UK both agree that in studies of upland lambing, lamb losses were unaffected by the presence of foxes. |
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To test for differences in mean physical and chemical soil characteristics between the floodplain and upland landforms, we used non-parametric Mann-Whitney tests. |
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During this period, total cover of many shade-intolerant spring ephemeral forb species is significantly greater on upland landforms than floodplain landforms. |
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The village lies five miles east of Ilfracombe in a valley that runs from the north-western edge of the Exmoor upland down to the Bristol Channel. |
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Selecting soils from stable upland positions that developed in loessic parent material allowed us to isolate modern climate as the main influence on soil properties. |
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Coots, ducks and flamingos clustered around the fringes of shallow tarns whilst great flocks of upland geese, buff-necked ibis and lapwing settled on the plains to feed. |
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West of the Severn valley and the north midland plain is the Welsh Marches, classic hill and vale country with small areas of upland separated by deeply incised valleys. |
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The team are not only involved in rescues in upland areas, but much time is also spent on searching for missing persons in lowland and coastal areas. |
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This is upland country, a landscape that changes from the green and gorse you see near the coast to barer tussocky hills, surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges. |
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On the second day of the trip the group botanized in upland areas in the Hansey Creek watershed to see the state-rare Quercus nigra at the northern limit of its range. |
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In New York, for example, the number of upland sandpipers declined by an estimated 84 percent from 1966 to 1995, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. |
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These include such species as black grouse and curlew, which are associated with upland areas, as well as the song thrush, spotted flycatcher and linnet. |
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In comparison, in an upland sandy soil the spodic horizon is much thinner and poorly developed, and the area below that horizon is a colored sandy layer, rather than gray. |
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Usda reports per acre costs of production for only certain crops, including barley, corn, upland cotton, oats, rice, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat. |
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Outfield is uncultivated upland pasturage used for summer grazing. |
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In order to salvage the wood, huge tracts of upland forest were clear-cut. |
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Gaps in this wetland function similarly to those studied in a variety of upland forest types, by serving as sites of regeneration for intolerant species. |
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In other areas, notably the upland regions, pre-existing native farms and villages continued the traditional pre-Roman patterns of agricultural production. |
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None of the streams draining upland areas of the Southeast were glaciated during Pleistocene ice ages or inundated by Cretaceous seas during interglacial periods. |
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The gopher tortoise is a large turtle that lives in deep burrows, often up to 25 feet in length, in upland habitats usually dominated by stands of longleaf pines. |
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A five-mile section of the upland route between Llanbrynmair and Llangadfan has not yet been completed, so walkers are sent on tedious road detours. |
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As ground moisture is pulled back into the dry atmosphere, ephemeral wildflowers slowly fade from the upland slopes, signaling harder times to come. |
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And that's going to be conversion to dockominiums or upland condos, where you have to buy a half-million or million-dollar condo plus a slip just to be able to get the slip. |
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In presettlement times, lightning fires spread over great expanses of upland forests, sometimes for weeks, until reaching a river or large wetlands. |
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In the case of Scottish hill packs or the gun packs of Wales and upland areas of England, the fox is flushed to guns. |
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The Wear rises in the east Pennines, an upland area raised up during the Caledonian orogeny. |
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The urban structure of Oldham is irregular when compared to most towns in England, its form restricted in places by its hilly upland terrain. |
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Waterhead, an upland area in the east of Oldham, traces its roots to a water cornmill over the border in Lees. |
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The urban structure of Rochdale is regular when compared to most towns in England, its form restricted in places by its hilly upland terrain. |
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Together with the sub-tropical monsoon climate, the upland farming makes Fujian s farmland highly susceptive to soil erosion. |
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It has been suggested that beaver dams could retain water in upland areas, reducing flood volumes and creating new habitats for wildlife. |
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Schimper came to the conclusion that ice must have been the means of transport for the boulders in the alpine upland. |
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Generally these communities are in the west of their countries and in more isolated upland or island areas. |
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Weeds are also very prevalent on dry upland grasslands, where such hay as is produced is necessarily thin and haulmy. |
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Hafod is Welsh for an upland summer residence, while Eryri is the Welsh name for Snowdonia. |
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Much of the local authority's area is hilly with the main area of upland being located in the council ward of Mawr. |
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Other wind farms are found on inland, mostly upland sites, but there are none in the Snowdonia and Brecon Beacons national parks. |
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These metals were also mined in the upland areas of the Rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol. |
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In the southwestern corner of the state, the Driftless Area is also an upland area but demonstrates more rugged, unforgiving terrain. |
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The effects of varied grazing management on epigeal spiders, harvestmen and pseudoscorpions of Nardus stricta grassland in upland Scotland. |
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Both are located in the Cairngorms, a mountain range in the eastern Highlands which is the highest upland area in Britain. |
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While the Lowlands are less elevated, upland and mountainous terrain is located across the Southern Uplands. |
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While most of the mountains and uplands are in the north, Dartmoor and Exmoor are two upland areas lying in the south west of the country. |
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Other upland and hilly areas in the north and Midlands are the Cheviot Hills, the North York Moors, and the Shropshire Hills. |
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Foxhound packs in the Cumbrian fells and other upland areas are followed by supporters on foot rather than on horseback. |
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These averages disguise considerable variation across the region, due chiefly to the upland regions and adjacent seas. |
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The upland areas include the Lake District, the Pennines, Exmoor and Dartmoor. |
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There are various upland systems of plant associations that occur throughout the Gran Chaco. |
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Both of these upland systems, as well as numerous other Gran Chaco areas, are rich with endemism. |
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Many upland watersheds are being deforested and degraded, and fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce. |
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The term also may apply to the longer textile fiber staple lint as well as the shorter fuzzy fibers from some upland species. |
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Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. |
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Its more specific use as a mountain lake emerges as it is the commonly used term for all ponds in the upland areas of Northern England. |
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Many of the species only occur on upland moorland, tied to features unique to the habitat. |
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The centre is slightly lower, an area of upland grazing and marshland known as Skiddaw Forest. |
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This cone in turn stands upon a much broader upland plateau which stretches away five miles to the south west. |
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Despite regarding Slight Side as a separate entity, Wainwright included the wide upland area beyond it to the south west as a part of Scafell. |
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Beyond Slight Side is a rough upland with many craggy tops and a number of tarns, before the southward descent finally ends in Lower Eskdale. |
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Claife Heights is an upland area in the Lake District, near to Windermere in Cumbria, England. |
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In the Forest of Bowland and other upland areas, the hen harrier is under threat from illegal persecution. |
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The Rossendale Valley also known as the Forest of Rossendale, is an upland area of the Pennines in Lancashire, North West England. |
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Elsewhere on the moorland there are areas of upland heath, acid grassland and upland flushes. |
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However, altitude is not the sole determinant of whether a river is upland or lowland. |
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Foothills are geographically defined as gradual increase in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area. |
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In studies of the ecology of freshwater rivers, habitats are classified as upland and lowland. |
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Many freshwater fish and invertebrate communities around the world show a pattern of specialisation into upland or lowland river habitats. |
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The forest contains a number of sites of special scientific interest, primarily associated with the upland moorland environment. |
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In the United Kingdom black grouse are found in upland areas of Wales, the Pennines and most of Scotland. |
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To the northwest lie Holne and Scorriton on the southern breastwork of the Dartmoor upland. |
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Both organisations funded an invited number of upland hill farmers to attend. |
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The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains. |
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To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste. |
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One example is a substantial increase of water oak and sweetgum on upland sites. |
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Some upland areas received, on average, over 25 days per year of snow falling. |
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Generally, where water erosion rates on disturbed upland areas are greatest, rills are active. |
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Exmoor is an upland area formed almost exclusively from sedimentary rocks dating from the Devonian and early Carboniferous periods. |
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Ring Ouzels arrived at coastal sites such as the Great Orme, Wirral and Bardsey before heading inland to their upland summer territories. |
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The Exmoor National Park is primarily an upland area with a dispersed population living mainly in small villages and hamlets. |
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Besides the tidal channel there are interfaces to the upland dunes including mudflats, sand beaches and shingle flats. |
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Woodcock and ruffed grouse, which means she knows a thing or two about upland birds and of course, the dogs used to hunt them. |
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Traditionally, most California gins have used saw gins to process shorter-fibered upland or Acala cottons. |
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On the fen edge, parishes are similarly elongated to provide access to both upland and fen. |
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Breeding biology of the Tawny-bellied Seedeater in southern Brazilian upland grasslands. |
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The site consisted of approximately 1,821 ha that represented a mosaic of habitat types occurring within primarily bottomland and upland forests. |
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The Pennine landscape is high moorland in upland areas, indented by fertile valleys of the region's rivers. |
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It is clear that there was some prosperity there, particularly where rivers permitted access to the upland beyond the fen. |
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In the unglaciated portion of the state, beech was interspersed with southern mesophytes throughout dense upland forests and in ravines. |
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For example, many turtles are killed on roads when they leave the water to lay their eggs in upland sites. |
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The Wicklow Mountains range is the largest continuous upland region in Ireland. |
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The conversion of marshland to upland for agriculture has in the past century been overshadowed by conversion for urban development. |
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Reclamation of land for agriculture by converting marshland to upland was historically a common practice. |
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Its role in sustaining rural and upland communities and their position as part of our social and cultural fabric is priceless. |
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The building of parish churches also began in the 12th century, densely in the Vale, but very sparsely in the upland and northern areas. |
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Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. |
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Llantrisant is typical of most locations in the south Wales region, being home to typical upland habitat birds and mammals of the British Isles. |
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The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines. |
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The Rhondda Valley is located in the upland, or Blaenau, area of Glamorgan. |
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The majority of National Nature Reserves in Wales are based in rural, coastal or upland areas. |
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The most common families of upland birds in the site are tinamous and doves, which are popular gamebirds across the Neotropics. |
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The northern parts of the settlement lie upland on the southern fringes of the Lomond Hills Regional Park. |
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Sunshine, at little in excess of 1250 hours per year is low, as one would expect of an inland location in Northern England located amongst upland areas. |
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The area of modern Birmingham lay in between, on the upland Birmingham Plateau and within the densely wooded and sparsely populated Forest of Arden. |
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Its typical habitat is upland heather moors away from trees. |
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Reasons for the decline include loss of heather due to overgrazing, creation of new conifer plantations and a decline in the number of upland gamekeepers. |
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In medieval and early modern times the land was mainly agricultural, as it still is today, with sheep farming, rather than arable, the main activity in these upland holdings. |
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Cardiff Docks reached an exporting peak in 1923, but soon production fell and unemployment in the upland valleys began to increase at a dramatic rate. |
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The Forestry Commission had for half a century a most interesting social policy which has had a large impact on upland Britain, but is rarely considered nowadays. |
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Dry stone walls are characteristic of upland areas of Britain and Ireland where rock outcrops naturally or large stones exist in quantity in the soil. |
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The Rough Fell is an upland breed of sheep, originating in England. |
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For example, the grassland nesting birds of highest management concern based on our ranks were the Henslow's sparrow, dickcissel, and upland sandpiper. |
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The hardy constitution enables a ewe to mother and rear her lambs whilst feeding mainly on the poor upland grasses and heathers found on her native moorland. |
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After Rheged was incorporated into Northumbria, the old Cumbric language was gradually replaced by Old English, Cumbric surviving only in remote upland communities. |
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This ranges from moorland grazing of sheep in the upland areas, through to improved pasture and mixed farms in the middle reaches, where dairy farming is important. |
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We know the line of this frontier which ran from the Main across the upland Odenwald to the upper waters of the Neckar and was defended by a chain of forts. |
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Over the centuries these Neolithic practices greatly expanded the upland moors, and contributed to the acidification of the soil and the accumulation of peat and bogs. |
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To the east of the county are upland areas leading to the Pennines. |
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Ring ouzels, the mountain blackbird, have been returning to upland nesting areas, hopefully to be recorded by RSPB surveyors completing a UK census. |
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During the stocktake, the industry had pressed for income support for upland farms but this ran counter to the ethos of Pillar 2-type schemes, said Mr Davies. |
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As a small village in the upland valleys of Glamorgan, Aberdare did not play any significant part in political life until its development as an industrial settlement. |
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The central upland of the main island is called the Quixaba. |
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A project at Sugar Cove transported upland sand to the beach. |
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I don't want to count the scatterguns I now own, but the number is embarrassing.Because I love hunting pheasants, it's become my litmus test for judging upland scatterguns. |
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Many of the worst upland bogs of the District are in this area. |
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Scattered among them are clumps of Dutchman's breeches, which resemble tiny pantaloons hung out to dry, and twinleaf, rare in upland sites but common in the floodplain. |
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Most of the Pennine landscape is characterised by upland areas of high moorland indented by more fertile river valleys, although the landscape varies in different areas. |
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The upland area is underlain by sedimentary rocks dating from the Devonian and early Carboniferous periods with Triassic and Jurassic age rocks on lower slopes. |
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The Cairngorm Mountains are a spectacular landscape, similar in appearance to the Hardangervidda National Park of Norway in having a large upland plateau. |
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The rural landscape varies from arable farmland in the flat lands to the south of Derby, to upland pasture and moorland in the high gritstone uplands of the southern Pennines. |
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More recently a number of wind farms have been developed on upland sites. |
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Until the mid 18th century, economic development in Wales was restricted by its peripheral location, predominantly upland topography, bad communications and sparse population. |
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The oldest rocks occur in the northern, more upland half of the county, and are mostly of Carboniferous age, comprising limestones, gritstones, sandstones and shales. |
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The varied upland landscape offers a vital habitat for dry heath, wet heath, mire, sessile oak woodland, reed bed, river, valley mire and marsh grasslands. |
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With a cotton gin a man could remove seed from as much upland cotton in one day as would have previously taken a woman working two months to process at one pound per day. |
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The main upland area occupies most of the southern half of the country. |
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It was named after the West Linton market in Peeblesshire, which specialised in selling the hardy Lintons for Scottish Highland and other upland farming. |
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In upland rivers, rapids with whitewater or even waterfalls occur. |
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An exception to this perilous state is Ruabon moor, near Wrexham, which is home to healthy numbers of grouse and other upland species such as curlew and golden plover. |
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