grassland
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The Welkers first arrived in Montana over a century ago, homesteading a modest patch of grassland.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
The newly protected area includes species-rich chalk grassland, important archaeological records and habitat for rare wildlife, including the endangered Duke of Burgundy butterfly.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
If she can prove that cheetahs are worth saving, she thinks, she can help the cheetahs who are living in “the parched grassland she can only imagine. The place that would’ve been her home, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
For example, Olduvai Gorge Bed in Tanzania has been described as freshwater woodland and grassland, while the Upper Bed reflects drier woodlands and marshy areas.
From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026
In addition to building roads, causeways, canals, dikes, reservoirs, mounds, raised agricultural fields, and possibly ball courts, Erickson has argued, the Indians who lived there before Columbus trapped fish in the seasonally flooded grassland.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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