Rocky Grass News

 
Voice of America
Tallgrass Still Waves Undisturbed on the Plains
Voice of America
... westward to the Rocky Mountains - and northward from Texas deep into Canada - was once uninterrupted prairie, where Plains Indians hunted free-roaming bison, elk and antelope. A “sea of grass,” the first Europeans called the never-ending prairie.


 
New York Times
Inconveniences Aside, a Picnic Can Be a Delight
New York Times
A picnic sounds wonderful, but somehow, when the blanket is spread over rocky, wet earth, and the warmed potato salad is opened up like an invitation to the flies, when the sea gulls surround you, when you drop your sandwich in the grass, or lightning ...


 
Smoke from massive fire spreads across NM, Ariz.
WGME
In Southern California, firefighters are working to corral a wildfire that has chewed through 2500 acres of tinder-dry grass and light brush east of Julian. 258-a-08-(Steve Segin (SEH'-gin), spokesman, Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center, ...

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Conrich-area grassfire sparks Level III ban in Rocky View County
Rocky View Weekly
Rocky View County announced May 14 that a Level III fire ban had been declared for the county, days after a train ignited a large grass fire near Conrich. Rocky View Fire Chief Ken McMullen said the decision to instate the fire ban was necessary ...


 
East County Magazine
San Diego wildfire grows to 2500 acres
KESQ
The fire, which began Thursday, was burning south away from homes, chewing through light grass in steep, rocky terrain. Authorities evacuated about 100 homes in the Shelter Valley area along Highway 78 in the early stages of the blaze, but evacuation ...
Firefighters work to corral Calif. wildfireTimes-Standard

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'Moonrise Kingdom' is mature work with youthful spirit
Kansas City Star
The film unfolds in a wind-swept little populated swath of Rhode Island, with rocky inlets and fields of long grass that evoke a more innocent time, as does the emotion between the youngsters, a kind of unsullied purity to their connection that feels ...

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Enda the latest member of his Lighthouse Family to navigate rocky waters
Irish Independent
Four giant chalk letters are etched on to the wind-tattered grass at Loop Head lighthouse which clings to the last piece of Europe before America. EIRE. Freshly painted as part of the renovations of this graceful whitewashed lighthouse at the ...

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