prairie
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The new sound system and eager performances made the prairie feel close.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Muñoz’s program was bookended by dance scores — Ginastera’s “Four Dances from ‘Estancia’” and Copland’s ballet, “Billy the Kid” — that evoke the prairie and the people in it in both viscerally and spiritually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Laura Parker, a lawyer for the center, said it can be hard for people to understand why a tiny lizard, or rare mussel species, or the lesser prairie chicken are worth preserving.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Debbie Lyons-Blythe, a cattle rancher from Kansas, said losing the prairie grasses cattle roam on is a problem, but she is also increasingly turning to AI to help better manage her operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Hale was determined to transform not only himself but the wilderness from which he came—to cross-fence the open prairie and to create a network of trading posts and towns.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Refinery issues in the Great Lakes and the prairies of Canada fed into significant price increases for those two areas, including the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin.
From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026
Curling was born in Scotland in the early 16th century but grew up centuries later on the Canadian prairies, where the severe weather, rural landscape and boredom provided fertile ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
The Florida Everglades are a unique environmental region comprising marshes, prairies, forests, mangroves and estuaries.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
The uprooting of prairies across the Great Plains and the Dust Bowl could not have occurred without the massive settler movement triggered by the Homestead Act of 1862.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2025
Jimmy noticed that the grass was sparse here and the land looked like a desert, no longer like the grass prairies to the east.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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