Sam Abell

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.

American Photographer

Patricia MacLachlan

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

American Writer

Arthur Slade

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

Canadian Author

Tony Parsons

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

English Critic

Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

American Poet

Ellsworth Huntington

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

American Educator

Tim Pawlenty

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.

American Politician

Buffalo Bill

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

American Celebrity

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Canadian Writer

Francis Parkman

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

American Historian

Primarily used to describe flat grasslands in North America, particularly in the U.S. and Canada.

Geographic Term

Refers to an ecosystem with specific plants and animals, like prairie dogs, which are not found elsewhere.

Natural Habitat

Indicates an area of land with few to no trees, different from forests or woodlands.

Not Forested

 increase agricultural production from the standpoint of domestic livestock and so we poisoned prairie dogs in order to have more forage for cattle and other livestock and finally we introduced inadvertently an exotic disease sylvatic plague from the old world of the new world and prairie dogs and ferrets had

Ferret ​Babies Key to...

 help other foreigners and non falconers I understand what falconry is doing you know if I can keep a kid from becoming a drug addict and if I can help a kid stay in school that's the peak other than catching a prairie chicken with my Falcons but yeah that would be my perfect flight

Hunting With Falcons:...

 but lately they've discovered that certain animals could be much better at reading and reacting to the emotional states of others than we previously thought prairie voles which live in bonded pairs will go to great lengths to groom and nurture a mate that's showing signs of stress

Do Animals Feel Empathy?...

 A mountaintop or prairie? Not good! You need to get buried, the faster the better, because the longer you hang around on the surface, the more likely you'll get eaten, scavenged, or otherwise destroyed before ever having a chance to get preserved. If you can get buried someplace

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 In ensemble, that's what whole ecosystems they create more and more opportunities for life. Our farming has done the opposite. So, farming based on how a prairie builds soil, ranching based on how a native ungulate herd actually increases the health of the range,

12 sustainable design...

 significance is that it's part of an ecosystem that is highly underrepresented in the world out here on the right planes we know that where its habitat where it lives there's other species like prairie dogs and you know

Harsh Reality of Saving...

 run fast they have great eyesight they're protected by the elements by living in holes underground they are one of over a hundred vertebrate species alone that make their lives in this prairie ecosystem

Playful, Elusive Foxes...

 were the nakota people of the prairie from the great rockies to the great lakes we consider this area in between to be the land that was meant for our people where you've been all my life does just

Last Wild Places:...

 could help black footed ferrets Nestorian ferrets is they lived solely on prairie dogs and when farmers and ranchers declared war on prairie dogs the ferrets were collateral damage and

Reversing animal...

 their food the giant short-faced bear will need its extra size for another reason life on the open prairie is about to get tougher soon

Prairie