EDiS – Environments/Habitats - #25 - (for) “Tropical Grasslands"
In the tropics they are called veldts, savannas and pampas. In non-tropical climes, such as here, rolling grasslands are called prairies. At the bottom of Washington state, in a prairie in a bend of the Columbia River Gorge, across from the Dalles, Oregon, there is a ranch where, on their 12,000+ acres, the owners raise buffalo and cattle. And yaks. And emus and ostriches and wallaroos and elk and mules. And a zebra. And a giraffe. Buffalo weren't necessarily native to the state, back in the day. But they are now. Yippee kai yay and wallaroo, too.
In the tropics they are called veldts, savannas and pampas. In non-tropical climes, such as here, rolling grasslands are called prairies. At the bottom of Washington state, in a prairie in a bend of the Columbia River Gorge, across from the Dalles, Oregon, there is a ranch where, on their 12,000+ acres, the owners raise buffalo and cattle. And yaks. And emus and ostriches and wallaroos and elk and mules. And a zebra. And a giraffe. Buffalo weren't necessarily native to the state, back in the day. But they are now. Yippee kai yay and wallaroo, too.
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