Wiktionary
n. An area that has only a sparse flora and fauna. This term was first used to describe the harsh Australian Outback, the red semi-desert that covers a significant part of the inner continent.
Wikipedia
Bushland is a blanket term for land which supports remnant vegetation or land which is disturbed but still retains a predominance of the original floristics and structure.
Human survival in bushland has a whole mythology evolving around it, with the legendary stories of Aboriginal trackers and bushrangers deeply entrenched in Australian folklore. Bushland has been a traditional source of wood for fuel and bushfood.
Bushland provides a number of ecosystem services including the protection of water quality, stopping erosion, acting as a windbreak, and trapping nutrients. Bushland is prone to bushfires. This presents a challenge to authorities as infrastructure and habitations encroach into bushland areas.
Bushland is a term for naturally vegetated areas of Australia
Bushland may also refer to:
- Bushland, Texas, a city in Texas.
- Raymond Bushland, an entomologist
Usage examples of "bushland".
As the sun came up above the low bushland a wave of flame stirred the long grass and spread on and on.
The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.
Once beyond that, the country was open bushland, grassy plains, patches of scrub, scattered gum trees with rolling country beyond.
It was thicker bushland, through which the cowboy led in a zigzag course.
A boiling spring of sweet water ran away from the bank of bushland, forming a little stream that meandered away toward a pale lake, black and white with waterfowl.
Sterl looked over bushland and green downs which led to higher and denser bush.
Do you have any advice for John Bushland, who will have to photograph them?
John Bushland, lived on nearby Pleasant Street with his new wife, Janice, and their four Amazon parrots.
John Bushland freelanced for the newspaper but also had his own commercial studio in Pickax, and Qwilleran found him there, early Wednesday morning.
Rolf Boldrewood Preface It is not so easy to write ballads descriptive of the bushland of Australia as on light consideration would appear.
So, before they curse the bushland they should let their fancy range, And take something for their livers, and be cheerful for a change.
On their second day they came into a section of bushland that had been ravished by fire.
Melbourne was a melting pot of the dynamic and hopeless: the pioneers who wanted to carve a future out of the bushland, newly released convicts, dispossessed Aborigines stupefied with rum, government functionaries building a curriculum vitae to take elsewhere, speculators growing rich on credit, and speculators going bankrupt for the lack thereof.
Brighton bushland I drew back the hammer of my Colt and left it loose under my coat.
All through that Sunday of August 28th, 1842 I toured a list of houses in bushland settings, shooting down neophyte guards and stabbing their torpid masters, gorging on vitality.