There, thick emerald forests give way to wild grasslands reminiscent of the African savannah.
Most of the acreage burned is on the Pike San Isabel National Forest and Grasslands.
Dingoes are most common along the edges of forests and grasslands where prey is usually abundant.
For millennia man has been changing the landscape, hacking and burning forests and ploughing up grasslands.
It is indeed a beautiful spot, with 1, 000 cattle roaming the grasslands and hillsides.
You can spend all day on a horse, galloping across grasslands and through tunnels of bamboo.
Horses freely roamed the grasslands and the valley was dotted with yurts, the summer homes of the nomadic shepherds.
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Some environmentalists argue that the administration's proposal does not go far enough in protecting forests and grasslands.
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The lone taxi at the airport took me there, past the mines and across the frozen grasslands.
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Social media and the mainstream found each other and then the wildfire ignited like grasslands in drought.
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In 1959, a vast new oil field in the grasslands of northeast China, in Manchuria, was discovered.
Within the past couple of years, for-profit enterprises like Grasslands, LLC are successfully implementing the Savory Holistic Management methodology.
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Any oil wells also would require a federal permit because they would be on the Little Missouri National Grasslands.
Winding through low-lying, lush grasslands, it serves as the main, and at times only, transportation route through the area.
They could better manage the grasslands that make up the bird's unique habitat.
Back in Sonoita, the original drive continues north through oak trees and grasslands.
Mr Scheiman blames the loss of open spaces and grasslands for the drop.
But almost half of the region's emissions come from changes in land use, as forests and grasslands are turned into farms.
If real life beckons, leave swaying grasslands behind, finishing this bird-watching boondoggle at I-10 with a short drive west to Tucson.
"Bumblebees need a range of flowers that come in to flower at different times and that is what you find in traditional grasslands, " she said.
The modern freeways and suburban sprawl give way to high grasslands in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve and dense redwood forests north of Santa Cruz.
The profitability of the Grasslands structure comes from ranching fees per head of cattle, and is based directly on the Savory Institute business model.
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In addition to increased yields of beef per acre, the Grasslands model also creates an opportunity to commoditize sequestered carbon for carbon credit trading.
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One young woman who has benefited from this program is a woman named Evelyn Nkadori, from the Masai people of the grasslands of Kenya.
And the implication is that what is currently savanna will become forest: we might assume that what is currently grasslands will become savanna as well.
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Giraffes, hippopotamuses, lions, elephants, zebra, gazelles, cattle and horses roamed across grasslands that may have received ten times more rainfall than the same area today.
Nevertheless you repeated the centuries-old error of seeing savannahs, grasslands and prairies as worthless and empty, fit only for conversion to pastures and soyabean fields.
In action scenes, Griffith bluntly thrust his camera close to raw physical reality, whether at hammered wedges splitting logs or grasslands cruelly rutted by war wagons.
At the time, it was also used as a habitat for a range of wildlife, including buffalo, zebra, gazelles and leopards, which frequently strayed onto the farmland from the neighbouring grasslands.
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