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Recent Examples of overgraze
But unlike large mammals, the ants don’t overgraze all the vegetation in the area around their colony.
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Brian Handwerk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2022
Managers extended the fall season and provided winter openings to try to hit harvest targets, something Fish and Game says is important to keep the herd sustainable, and not so large that animals overgraze or starve.
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Zachariah Hughes,
Anchorage Daily News,
9 Sep. 2021
As a result, proliferating shrimp could overgraze the algae that supports a healthy population, according to Luft.
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Brian Maffly,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
7 Dec. 2020
Cattle and sheep overgraze on the zacaton, and farmers burn the grass to promote new growth in pastures and cut it for thatch.
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National Geographic,
23 Jan. 2020
In this case, individual Arizonans are being asked to guard the public good, while policy makers, developers and multinational corporations overgraze our water to the detriment of the greater good.
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John D'anna,
azcentral,
15 Dec. 2019
Without sharks, fish would overgraze and destroy our oceans.
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Stephanie Bedo,
Fox News,
16 July 2018
The factor may be that herbivores overgraze their range and run short of food.
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E O Wilson,
Discover Magazine,
11 June 2012
Brian Handwerk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2022
Managers extended the fall season and provided winter openings to try to hit harvest targets, something Fish and Game says is important to keep the herd sustainable, and not so large that animals overgraze or starve.
—
Zachariah Hughes,
Anchorage Daily News,
9 Sep. 2021
As a result, proliferating shrimp could overgraze the algae that supports a healthy population, according to Luft.
—
Brian Maffly,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
7 Dec. 2020
Cattle and sheep overgraze on the zacaton, and farmers burn the grass to promote new growth in pastures and cut it for thatch.
—
National Geographic,
23 Jan. 2020
In this case, individual Arizonans are being asked to guard the public good, while policy makers, developers and multinational corporations overgraze our water to the detriment of the greater good.
—
John D'anna,
azcentral,
15 Dec. 2019
Without sharks, fish would overgraze and destroy our oceans.
—
Stephanie Bedo,
Fox News,
16 July 2018
The factor may be that herbivores overgraze their range and run short of food.
—
E O Wilson,
Discover Magazine,
11 June 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgraze
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Sadly, the last Blockbuster (aside from one defiant Bend, Oregon, outlier) went out to pasture in 2014, and independent video stores are an increasingly rare sight.
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In Wisconsin, dairy farms are smaller, herds are smaller, and cows are usually sent out to pasture to graze in good weather, which is not easy to come by in Wisconsin.
Verb
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The sheep graze down grasses and plant material, clearing space for native flowering species to thrive while naturally fertilizing the land in the process.
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Antonacci has twice been challenged by opponents — unsuccessfully — on balls that merely grazed his jersey.
Verb
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Instead of staying in the area of the ranch where the giraffes are fed, Gracie decided to forage on higher terrain and climbed rocks to escape.
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First, a spider would lay down an anchor point on a surface where green tree ants were likely to forage, before attaching it to a tension line connecting back to the main web.
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