shortgrass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shortgrass
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CHEYENNE, Wyo.—Twenty years ago, Stan and Tammy Higgins moved into a home just outside this Old West railroad town on 3 acres of windswept shortgrass prairie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The chestnut-collared longspur, which lives in the northern shortgrass prairie and sings as it flies.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Each autumn in southeast Colorado, hordes of fuzzy, fist-sized male tarantulas emerge from their burrows to scour the shortgrass prairie for mates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
Pueblo West, which was supposed to revegetate with native shortgrass, instead subdivided it into 40-acre parcels.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2021
“I show off the cattle and the shortgrass prairie system, the climate and how people make a living out here.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2015
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