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unusual facts about pasture



Administrative divisions of Mongolia during Qing

Dariganga - Qing emperor's pasture, where the best horses from both Inner and Outer Mongolia were collected and mastered by the Dariganga tribe.

Akerly Homestead

The Poillon-Akerly-Omsted Farmhouse was a large farm and modest Dutch farmhouse on one of the higher hills overlooking Raritan Bay, and Sandy Hook in the distance on Staten Island purchased by Olmsted's father and given to Frederick Law Olmsted in 1848 to grow crops, plant trees and clear for pasture for livestock.

Ambleside, Edmonton

The origin of the name is Old Norse Á-mel-sǽtr = "river — sandbank — summer pasture".

Argali

In Tibet, the argali must regularly compete with other grazing species for pasture, including Tibetan antelope, bharal, Thorold's deer and wild yaks.

Augustus Charles Gregory

Two years later, Gregory lead an expedition to examine the course of the Gascoyne River and, in particular, to look for new pasture-land.

Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan

Later, it became dairy pasture land, before the land was acquired by the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in 1984 and The Garden was opened to the public in 1988 by the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.

Balls Cross

Not far to the north, fields at Butcherlands Farm have been purchased by the Sussex Wildlife Trust which will be allowed to revert to pasture woodland over many years to double the size of the nationally important Ebernoe Common nature reserve.

Ballyvourney

Neither would it be part of the Golden Vale unlike the rich pasture towns to the north of the Boggeragh mountains (e.g. Charleville).

Baseball Ontario

While living in Denver, Colorado, he wrote of his recollections that the match was played on a square field in a pasture.

Breno, Ticino

Alp Rettaiola (alpine pasture) was lost after a century-long dispute with the Italian Valle Veddasca, following a by a decision of the Varese Congress in 1752.

Darby Dan Farm

The horse farm has 750 acres (3 km²) of blue grass pasture plus a large number of barns and breeding facilities.

Depopulation of the Great Plains

The Buffalo Commons proposal calls for a large part of the drier regions of the Great Plains to be returned to its original condition as a pasture for buffalo and other plains animals.

Drivers Hill

The fields contain some species of flower typical of old pasture, such as crested dog's tail, oval sedge and lady's bedstraw.

Edge Hill State School

"In the dry weather a lone Jabiru came yearly to stand motionless for hours in the lower paddock. Snakes including death adders were plentiful. A dairy farm adjoined the school. The cows in search of pasture, made tracks along the school's fence. At certain times of the year the areas where cows had been, produced enormous crops of delicious mushrooms"

Fort Tongass

Historian Hubert Howe Bancroft notes: "the site was well chosen, containing a plentiful supply of timber and pasture, while fish and game abound in the neighbourhood.

Greater Chimgan

Some experts see Chinese words in the name "Chimgan" but others translate it as "sod" or "pasture abundant in water, green valley".

Halling, Kent

In the Charter for Halling (765-785 AD) Ecgberht II of Kent granted to St. Andrews of Rochester, "ten sulings at Halling with rights to pasture swine in five districts".

Hancock Manor

In 1795, two years after John Hancock's death, the town of Boston purchased most of the estate for £4,000 and designated the pasture land as the site of the state's future capitol.

Harbour Grace Airport

On 20 May 1932 Amelia Earhart set off from Harbour Grace and, after a flight lasting 14 hours 56 minutes, landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Kites Hardwick

However, Salzman records that much of the arable land had once been pasture; this seems borne out as late as 1853 in a reference by RS Surtees to: ... the wide-stretching grazing grounds of Southam and Dunchurch.

Lake Débo

The inundated Lake Débo and Walado Débo (Inner Niger Delta in Mali) form the pasture lands which are collectively known as the flooded forest savannah with aquatic herbaceous and two dominant species of Acacia.

Lake Waitamoumou

In the 1970s the dunes between the lake and the harbour were sown with tree lupin (Lupinus arboreus) and Marram Grass, which has reduced sand movement and provided a low quality pasture.

Lord's waste

:Part of the demesne land of the manor which being uncultivated was termed the Lord’s Waste and served for public roads and for common pasture to the lord and his tenants.

Luddington, North Lincolnshire

Climate change during the Little Ice Age saw the advance of marshlands, the dying of woodlands (which became bog oak) and the reduction of pasture.

Mrs Henry de la Pasture

A Catholic, in 1887 she married Henry Philip Duracel de la Pasture of Llandogo Priory, Monmouthshire.

Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi

Under the leadership of Al-Mahdi, the Senussi order arrived at the height of their influence and spread, building their Zaouias where water and pasture were available, and spreading south to the Ouaddaï Region and Lake Chad.

Murder in the Middle Pasture

Murder in the Middle Pasture is the fourth book in the Hank the Cowdog series of children's novels by John R. Erickson.

Nicaraguan Grackle

It mainly occurs in the vicinity of Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua but its range has expanded a little thanks to the clearance of forest and creation of pastures by man.

North Carolina Highway 281

Various other falls can also be found along Horse Pasture River and multiple trails connect the area with rare shortia found in the area.

Pennisetum clandestinum

In addition, it is useful as pasture for livestock grazing and serves as a food source for many avian species, including the Long-tailed Widowbird.

Porlock

Copses of white dead trees remind the visitor of when this was freshwater pasture.

Potter Valley, California

Potter Valley is a rich agricultural region, with excellent soils, planted mostly in irrigated pasture, wine grapes, and pears, but supporting a wide variety of farms and ranches.

Public Square

While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later Public Square was the height of modernity, when in 1879 it became the first street in the world to be lit with electric street lights, arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush.

Rosa carolina

Rosa carolina, commonly known as the Carolina rose, pasture rose, or low rose, is a shrub in the rose family native to eastern North America, where it can be found in nearly all US states and Canadian provinces east of the Great Plains.

Ryan Martinie

He uses harmonics that add a bright sound to his variety of styles, such as the intro to "Death Blooms" and "Out To Pasture".

He is known for flicks (found throughout his music) and a flamenco style, notable on "Dull Boy" and the chorus of "Out To Pasture" in some way.

Souffelweyersheim

In 1790, the formerly common pasture meadows were subdivided, and sections were given to Souffelweyersheim, Hoenheim, Bischheim, Adelshoffen and Schiltigheim.

South-west Saint Helena Important Bird Area

The four vegetation zones comprise an arid, eroded lowland below 350 m, an intermediate zone at 350–500 m of pasture and non-indigenous woodland, a moist highland zone characterised by woodland and flax plantations and, at the highest point of the island, a small remnant area of native Dicksonia fern thicket and Melanodendron cabbage trees.

Stracciata

Stracciata is produced in the municipalities of Agnone, Capracotta, Carovilli and Vastogirardi with milk from local breeds of cattle, mostly kept at pasture and fed with fodder.

Sulloniacis

Located on London Clay, it has many flowers typical of clay pasture, such as greater bird's-foot-trefoil and burnet-saxifrage.

Tswana people

Three brothers, Kwena, Ngwaketse and Ngwato, broke away from their father, Chief Molope, to establish their own tribes in Molepolole, Kanye and Serowe, probably in response to drought and expanding populations in search of pasture and arable land.

Ulnaby

It is thought that the reduction in size of the village was in response to the success of the cloth industry, which encouraged change from labour-intensive arable land to pasture.

Wood pasture

Evidence of old wood pasture management systems can be detected in many of the ancient woodlands of Scotland, such as Rassal Ashwood in Ross-shire, and at Glen Finglas in the Trossachs.

York Racecourse

It is situated on an expanse of ground which has been known since pre-medieval times as the Knavesmire, from the Anglo-Saxon "knave" meaning a man of low standing, and "mire" meaning a swampy pasture for cattle.


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