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  2. To a Waterfowl - Wikipedia

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    Bryant wrote the poem in July 1815. [3] He was inspired after walking from Cummington to Plainfield to look for a place to settle as a lawyer. The duck, flying across the sunset, seemed to Bryant as solitary a soul as himself, and he wrote the poem that evening.

  3. A Forest Hymn - Wikipedia

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    "A Forest Hymn" is an 1824 poem written by William Cullen Bryant, [1] which has been called one of Bryant's best poems, [2] and "one of the best nature poems of that age". [3] It was first published in Boston in the United States Literary Gazette along with several other poems written by Bryant.

  4. Goetze: In praise of prairies, fragile but important ecosystems

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    Prairies once extended in a broad, almost continuous band from southern Saskatchewan, Canada, into the Midwest and Central United States and southward to Texas and New Mexico.

  5. John Ernst Weaver - Wikipedia

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    He co-authored several important botany textbooks with Clements, but moved beyond Clements' paradigm of plant succession and in recognizing the need to preserve prairies, altered plant ecologists' views of the place of human efforts in preserving the natural world.

  6. North American Prairies province - Wikipedia

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    The North America Prairies is a large grassland floristic province within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom. It lies between the Appalachian Province and the Rocky Mountains and includes the prairies of the Great Plains .

  7. Dennis Cooley - Wikipedia

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    Dennis Cooley (born 1944) is a Canadian writer of poetry and criticism, a retired university professor, and a vital figure in the evolution of the prairie long poem. He was raised on a farm near the small city of Estevan, Saskatchewan in Canada, and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

  8. US skiing legend Lindsey Vonn to make surprise return after ...

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    Lindsey Vonn, one of the greatest skiers of all-time, is set to end her five-year retirement and return to the sport.. After 18 years on the World Cup circuit, three Winter Olympic medals, eight ...

  9. Tallgrass prairie - Wikipedia

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    Flowering big bluestem, a characteristic tallgrass prairie plant. The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.Historically, natural and anthropogenic fire, as well as grazing by large mammals (primarily bison) provided periodic disturbances to these ecosystems, limiting the encroachment of trees, recycling soil nutrients, and facilitating seed dispersal and germination.