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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
The West Coast National Park lies 88 km (55 mi) north of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. [a] The park is found inside of the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve, part of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme.
Map of national grasslands in the United States, depicted in yellow Entrance sign of a United States National Grassland area in South Dakota. A national grassland is an area of protected and managed federal lands in the United States authorized by Title III of the Bankhead–Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937 and managed by the United States Forest Service.
The National Grassland consists of about 100 tracts of land interspaced with privately owned ranchland. It is located in the mixed grass prairie region. The terrain is characterized by sandy and red slate hills in addition to grassland and oak brush. The creek bottoms are wooded with cottonwood, elm, and hackberry. Wildlife includes white ...
Montane grasslands and shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wildlife Fund. [1] The biome includes high elevation grasslands and shrublands around the world. The term "montane" in the name of the biome refers to "high elevation", rather than the ecological term that denotes the region below the treeline .
A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses . However, sedge and rush can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, such as ...
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (26 C, 77 P) Pages in category "Grasslands" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
About 25% of the original grassland remains (less than 10% in Canada) and continues to decrease due to the rapid growth of the Rockies' population. Expansion of cities in both Montana and Alberta is removing habitat and blocking the movements of native species including grizzly bears, elk, mule deer and others.