A slight breeze rustles the long grass and the only other movement is supplied by the thousands of cattle that call the Pampas home. |
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Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be hermaphrodite. |
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For Latin America, for example, there are images of the Pampas, Indians from the highlands and llamas, as well as relevant student artwork. |
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The wintering grounds restricted to a small area of the Pampas make conservation work easier, but illustrate just how endangered the geese are. |
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School geography books talked of the Pampas, horses were on every page and cattle were lassoed before being killed for the Argentinian staple diet. |
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Pampas grass, public-school floggings, gimp MPs: none of these have helped allay this reputation for sordidness. |
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Pursued by armed lawmen, they crossed the Pampas and the Andes and again reached the safety of Chile. |
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Soil types in Argentina range from the light-coloured saline formations of the high puna in the Northwest to the dark, humus-rich type found in the Pampas. |
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In the course of 2004, the World Heritage Centre received many messages of concerned individuals and organizations related to the deterioration of the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca and Pampas de Jumana. |
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One species in particular, the Swainson's hawk, was being killed in great numbers on the Argentinian Pampas following some grasshopper control operations. |
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The guanaco, the viscacha, and the hare of the Pampas, are found in Patagonia. |
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This average is somewhat lower in the Pampas region, the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Cuyo and Patagonia, higher in the north-eastern provinces and particularly high in the northwestern provinces and Cuyo. |
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Argentine gauchos are well known for using it for night orientation in the vast Pampas and Patagonic regions. |
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In Australia, shifting sand dunes covered half the continent, whilst the Chaco and Pampas in South America became similarly dry. |
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Taphonomical aspects of silica phytoliths in the loess sediments of the Argentinean Pampas. |
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He started back in 1987 with motocross, and then took part in every possible rally in his country, managing fine performances at the Transpatagonico or the Por las Pampas races. |
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Based on information analysed for this pilot study, potential degradation in Argentina's dryland ecosystem services should be examined more closely in the Dry Pampas and Patagonia. |
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Invented in Argentina, the boleadoras were used by hunters in the Pampas or plains. |
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Pampas grass is probably one of the best-known ornamental grasses, but as it self-seeds so readily it has been declared a California pest. |
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Hybridized cattle breeds of the highest quality, such as Herefords, Angus, and Charolais, are raised on the rich midlatitude pasturelands of the Argentine Pampas and in Uruguay. |
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Within the kingdom, Central America, which includes Mexico and the isthmus, the West Indies, the Venezuela-Guyana region, Brazil, the Andes, and the Pampas all have some measure of endemicity. |
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Pampas grass Despite huge interest in grasses generally, pampas grass still languishes in the depths of naffness, a symbol of gardening 70s style. |
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The Zonda, a hot dry wind, affects Cuyo and the central Pampas. |
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Cattle were raised on the open range in the western United States and Canada, on the Pampas of Argentina, and on other prairie and steppe regions of the world. |
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The Brazilian Highlands on the east coast are fairly smooth but show some variations in landform, while farther south the Gran Chaco and Pampas are broad lowlands. |
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Up above the croquet lawn, stipas and striped pampas grass sway in the breeze and catch the low autumn light. |
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His slides showed examples of phormium, umbellifors, ferns and grasses, such as yuccas, angelica, tree ferns, bamboos and pampas grass. |
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Roads penetrate deeper and deeper into what were once pampas, dense forests and marshland. |
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Upland Sandpipers are long-distance migrants, spending the winter in the pampas of southern South America. |
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The other side of the mountains, to the south and east, the pampas stretches all the way to the ocean. |
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A spending rebound is visible from middle-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires to tourist spots and the agricultural provinces of the pampas. |
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Another species with similar social behavior also occurs on Japanese pampas grass. |
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Behind a clump of flowering sugar cane, waving like pampas grass in the breeze, the land slopes down into coffee. |
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With development has come exotic French broom and pampas grass that may compete with cypress seedlings. |
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Bovine expansion had replaced the previous pampas grass by alfalfa prairies. |
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Some oversize, cartoonish plants, such as banana-leaf cannas and Northern pampas grass, are real kid-pleasers. |
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A very cold south westerly wind from the Andes that sweeps across the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay. |
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The tabloid wave has swept from New Zealand and Australia to the pampas of Argentina, and, of course, the four corners of Europe. |
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The pampas were where the gauchos, nomadic half-Indian herdsmen, roamed and worked. |
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It's mid-afternoon at an estancia on the edge of the Argentine pampas. |
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Once favoured by the gauchos of the Argentinian pampas, it is fantastically fashionable, and promises to help combat stress by galvanising the nervous and immune systems. |
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A herd of wild horses galloped across the pampas, tossing their heads in a display of wild exuberance, against a backdrop of snow covered mountains. |
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I need to cut back my pampas grass and prune my crape myrtles. |
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With a little planning you can enjoy a view from your window of snow on the plumes of pampas grass or on a garden statue nestled into a green hedge. |
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Cattle are everywhere, roaming freely in a coarse variety of pampas grass. |
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Cattle would graze Appalachian pastures intensively and be rotated from paddock to paddock, just as grass-fed Argentine cattle graze on the South American pampas. |
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Soya has become the cash crop for half of Argentina's arable land, more than 11m hectares, most situated on fragile pampas lands on the vast plains. |
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The dry, tussocky crowns of pampas are another favoured site for hibernating hedgehogs. |
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Argentine authorities worried that the strong connections Araucanized tribes had with Chile would allegedly gave Chile certain influence over the pampas. |
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There were stories about pampas grass, tamarisk, Cape ivy, arundo grass, pepperweed, iceplant, and cheat-grass, all involving relationships in the process of disruption. |
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Wild populations of the Americas also include the ocelot, bobcat, lynx, margay, pampas cat, mountain cat, tiger cat, jaguarundi, and Geoffrey's cat. |
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Themed rooms with animal prints or Eighties decor like rag-rolling or stencilling were frowned upon along with pampas grass, a bidet and bedrooms with silk sheets. |
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