What is "overgrazed"

Usage examples of "overgrazed".

In prehistoric times, the tribal and nomadic people of the Mediterranean basin overcut and overgrazed the land so severely that the scars of the resulting erosion can still be seen.

The shwpi have overgrazed the world, allowing the storms to pick up and redistribute a lot of soil through wind erosion.

Thiadbold walked toward them through the overgrazed meadow, withered grass snapping under his feet.

Some trucks carried hay bales which farmers dumped into dusty corrals or into minuscule overgrazed plots for horses and sheep.

But mostly the horses are just there, useless, parasitic, grazing in the overgrazed fields, because there have always been horses in Milagro.

Thus, just about every small pasture was overgrazed and had been overgrazed ever since the government and the Ladd Devine Company appropriated most of the rest of the county some one hundred years ago.

Nick Rael, the third horse on a tether beside the highway eating the Right of Way grass for nothing, and his ten sheep spread into groups of three, three, and four each, grazing in overgrazed pastures belonging to Pete Apo-daca, Ray Gusdorf, and Seferino Pacheco, respectively.

But Bernabe understood roots and he understood the fractured culture, loving what was good in the past while refusing to romanticize it, at the same time that he admired all his stubborn neighbors who had survived on a wing and a prayer, on bootleg liquor, on a half-dozen illegal deer a year, and on a handful of overgrazed alfalfa fields.

Angel of Leaky Outhouses up there, and we got the Angel of Overgrazed Pastures and the Angel of Always Being Broke up there--why, we got so many offbeat, grizzled angels floating around over this little town that sometimes I get claustrophobia from all their wing rustling--from them that has any feathers left in their wings, that is.

While many indigenous societies have a great reverence for nature, there are also both non-Western and Western peasant and nomadic cultures that have overgrazed and overcultivated land, decimated forests, and, where population pressures have been severe, killed off animals needlessly and indifferently.

Captain Thiadbold walked toward them through the overgrazed meadow, withered grass snapping under his feet.

In silence they left the river and followed the track across an overgrazed pasture to the palisade gate.

The barbarians had overgrazed the few fields the peasants had left untouched, turning them into bleak patches of ground.

So there may well be nothing in any way holy about that crowded, overgrazed, mosquito-ridden place up in Kehnooryos Ehlahs at all.

She had entirely overgrazed her fingernails and had taken to cheek-biting instead.