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BubbaI’m not a big magnum fan either with the exception of when you get into game the size of Elk in badland country and Alaska!
You Bet Your Glass! 2008
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Rockies and outlying mountain chains for two-thousand miles from north to south, and are extensively exposed in great escarpments, river cañons and "badland" areas, bare of soil and vegetation and affording an immense stretch of exposed rock for the explorer.
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900
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It turns into badland with irreversly destroyed soil.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles the mounting problems the pack of the primordial feather was still one step ahead of me in their scheme to poach fossils from around alberta's badland. however today i could tel...
Life's Time Capsule: Member Bio: Craig Dylke Traumador 2009
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles the mounting problems the pack of the primordial feather was still one step ahead of me in their scheme to poach fossils from around alberta's badland. however today i could tel...
Life's Time Capsule: Member Bio: Mo Hassan Mo Hassan 2009
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The hot dry badland soils bear dense sagebrush flats and open shrubland dominated by Artemisia and Chenopodiaceae with several other ecologically specialized plant species.
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These wells are allowed with a 150m setback from the top of the badland slopes but only under stringent conditions to minimise their impacts (Parks Canada, 1991).
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles the mounting problems the pack of the primordial feather was still one step ahead of me in their scheme to poach fossils from around alberta's badland. however today i could tel...
Life's Time Capsule: Member Profile: Zachary Miller Zach 2009
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In addition, the riverbanks support cottonwood forests, the plains are covered by structurally complex grasslands and the badland terrain is continually eroded, revealing yet further bones (Parks Canada, 1991).
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Steep slopes, runoff, and salinity in badland areas limit vegetation to a sparse growth of yucca, cacti, ephedra, or sandsage.
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