; Damage to farmland: Trampling of grass meadows reduces the amount of winter feed for farm animals.

According to Theodore Roosevelt: " We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land the Midwest and saw the great natural meadows of long grass — sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt — they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.

Blue grass, it is said by farmers from the blue grass region of Kentucky, does nearly as well here as there, and as an evidence, it is found growing spontaneously in the woods, lawns, old fields and meadows.

Nocturnal feeding occurs in frost-free pasture or long-rotation grass meadows ; fields with woodland within 1 kilometre are preferred to allow roosting during the day.

When breeding in Eurasia, the Corn Crake's habitats would originally have included river meadows with tall grass and meadow plants including sedges and irises.

This small passerine bird is a species found in tall grass with some thicker vegetation, usually close to water in bogs or wet meadows.

In the southern part the grass in the open expanses ( heavily used for sport and sunbathing ) must be kept short ; but in the Hirschau some meadows are allowed to grow and mown for hay in June and August, while others are used as pasture for sheep.

He lives in streams in forests, meadows and marshes Patagonia, where it eats grass tender.

Research at the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology has shown that encouraging Yellow Rattle to grow in hay meadows greatly increases biodiversity by restricting grass growth and thereby allowing other species to thrive.

Males use lowland meadows during the spring, which is when snow melts and green grass appears.

Today the island lacks the forest cover of neighbouring Rangitoto Island and most areas are limited to grass and wet meadows.

Baer's Pochard breeds around lakes with rich aquatic vegetation, nesting in dense grass, flooded tussock meadows, or flooded shrubby meadows.

Donkey manure was best for immediate use, while horse manure wasn't good for grain crops, but according to Marcus Terentius Varro, it was very good for meadows because ' it promotes a heavy growth of grass plants like grass.

Despite claims that as many as half of fish species have disappeared from areas where Caulerpa grows, scientific studies have shown that fish diversity and biomass are equal or greater in Caulerpa meadows than in seagrass beds, that Caulerpa had no effect on composition or richness of fish species, and that species richness and epiphytic plant diversity is greater in Caulerpa than in pure sea grass.

The grass and sedge meadows of this area provide habitat for several thousand Wood and Plains Buffalo.

With regard to flora, some species-rich meadows remain, and the wood cranesbill ( Geranium sylvaticum ) and meadow cranesbill ( G. pratense ) are easy to spot in summer while the mountain pansy ( Viola lutea ) is a characteristic plant of the shorter grass round the upper dale.

Some of the land includes alpine tundra, arctic tundra, taiga, lake and wetland complexes, large river deltas, open grass and sedge meadows, and previously glaciated mountains and river valleys.

The park covers an area of 33 ha ( 81. 5 acres ), and consists mostly of woodland, with some grass and wildflower meadows in the southeast area of the park.

The serpents came back from their ablutions and saw the elixir gone but with small droplets of it on the grass.

We thus came upon two lagoons and several springs of good water, meanwhile encountering much grass, fennel and other good herbs.

Many of the founding fathers came to Cleveland because of good reports of plentiful grass and good homesteading.

His plane clipped the treetops, crashed through the airport's perimeter chain link fence and came to rest on the grass next to Runway 33.

After the ' lane of horrors ' came a grass common ' thickly stewn with the skulls and bones of sacrificed human beings.

The original contract for turfing the Oval cost £ 300 ; 10, 000 grass turfs came from Tooting Common.

Since the left wing was still attached, the lift from that wing rolled the fuselage onto its right side, and the plane came to rest inverted in the grass strip next to the runway.

The last command that I ever received came from General Bedford Forrest in person at the battle of Selma which was to have all the dry grass removed from the breast-works ; that it would catch on fire whenever the fire became hot, and smoke us out.

It also came with a three-metre grass margin.

Tohra, a graduate in Punjabi from Lahore University, worked at the grass root level for the next two decades and came into contact with Communists, including CPI-M leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet though he did not become one himself.

Beginning the grass court season in Eastbourne, Petrova was unseeded and came back from a set down to win on a final set tie-break to beat Karolina Šprem in the first round.

They finally came to an oasis with green grass and fresh water.

Consequently he came to the arena with three pairs of spiked shoes for a grass or clay surface and time did not permit a change of shoe.

In the 1800s the rye grass straw came into fashion because it was cheap and soft, but it had an unfortunate tendency to turn to mush in liquid.

Alpha Company came upon some grass huts which they were directed to burn.

William Forse Scott, a Union participant in the battle, wrote in The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: the Career of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Volunteers that as he and other cavalrymen were crossing the field adjacent to the Confederate encampment ( having just driven the Rebels across the Marais des Cygnes moments before ), they came across a terrified six-year-old girl hiding in some grass.

A grass roots fan club was created for Tippy Martinez near the bull pen in left field of Memorial Stadium in 1980, called " Tippy's Tweeters " Fans blew on an Official Oriole Tweeter every time Tippy came into the game as the reliever and when he struck out the side.

On lap 14, Mansell had been hounding Berger for 2 laps, but Berger had a puncture right when approaching the first chicane, and he went up on the marker, launching his Ferrari in midair, landing on a grassy patch and went across the track, just barely avoiding Mansell and came to rest on the trackside grass.

Here, the king, disguised as the man-servant of the daughter of one of his supporters, Jane Lane, met with a party of Roundhead troopers, before we came to Stradford upon Avon we espied upon the way a Troop of Horse whose riders were alighted, and the Horses eateing some grass by the wayside, staying there ( as I thought ) while their Muster-Maister was provideing their Quarters ; Mrs Lanes Sisters Husband ( who went along as far as Stradford ) seeing this Troop of Horse just in our way, sayd that for his part he would not goe by them, for he had once or twice been beaten by some of the Parliament Soldiers, and he would not run the venture again.

Disasters ensue —" no grass came through the earth, nor leaf on tree, nor grain in corn " says the story — and Mac Con is deposed and Cormac made king in his place.

Over the years, the two models came to be given the joint soubriquet ' Spridget ', and from their inception, Spridgets became popular cars to use in ' grass roots ' motor sport events all over the world, because of their predictable and entertaining handling characteristics and the ready availability of tuning parts, both from the manufacturer BMC and from independent tuning concerns – particularly Alexander Engineering and Speedwell Performance Conversions.

It caused a noise for a start that brought all the Englishmen running and then it came over the side of the gutter, crashed on to the lawn and slithered down the grass.

* On August 14, 2012, a Ilyushin Il-76TD-90VD operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines overran runway 11 while landing and came to rest in the grass overrun area.

Topsoil for the landscaping came from the Earl Strong Co. of Alexandria, the grass seed from O. M.