Word: bluestem
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...slender saplings -- downy birch, rowan, oak and Scotch pine -- to bring back the forest on tiny, windswept Isle Martin. And at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, ground crews and volunteers have returned some 280 hectares (700 acres) of former cornfields to a rustling expanse of big bluestem and Indian grass...
...environmentalists warn that the prairie is already deteriorating. Range Management Expert Dick Whetsell can point out areas where cattle have wiped out prairie flowers, including wild indigo and blazing stars, leadplants and horsemint, prairie clover and many species of sunflowers. It is still possible to find big bluestem grass that reaches shoulder-high, but old-timers like former Osage Tribal Council Member Bill Martin remember when the prairie grew "higher than a man riding a horse...
Udall left-seemingly in high good humor and only after shaking Bellinger's hand. But the incident really rankled. Later that day, appearing at a meeting in Westmoreland, Kans., Udall listened while Bellinger and other property owners explained why they did not want their 57,000 acres of bluestem grassland taken over as a national park. Said Stewart Udall, with memories of his experience that morning: "It's too bad when a member of the President's Cabinet tries to take a walk on a hill, he is told to get off," Concluded Udall: "But the National...
...farms, 1,500 acres, for an average $62.50 an acre. They plan to farm only the best 200 acres, but can put 771 of the poorer acres into the soil bank's "conservation reserve." For covering this land with Sudan grass now and sowing a permanent cover of bluestem and grama grasses next year, they expect the Government to pay upwards of $15,000, about 80% of the seed and sowing costs. This subsidized sowing qualifies the land for federal "rent" at $11 an acre this year and, under a ten-year contract beginning in 1958, an ultimate total...