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Platte River Prairies Field Day – July 13, 2012
PLEASE JOIN US for a Platte River Prairies Field Day on July 13, 2012. The day will include a range of activities, aimed to introduce relative newcomers to what prairies are all about and to allow more experienced prairie biologists/naturalists a chance … Continue reading
Posted in General, Prairie Management, Prairie Restoration/Reconstruction, Prairie Natural History, Prairie Insects, Prairie Plants
Tagged prairie management, platte river prairies, grassland restoration, spiders, ants, bees, reconstruction, field day, open house, plant identification, demonstration
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Why Are We Spending So Much Time Studying Birds?
Believe it or not, I really do like birds. (And thus starts another blog post destined to draw the ire of my ornithologist friends…) But here’s the thing. I just read yet another study of grassland birds in which the … Continue reading
Posted in General, Prairie Insects, Prairie Management, Prairie Natural History, Prairie Photography, Prairie Plants
Tagged breeding birds, grassland, grassland birds, ground beetle, ground squirrels, habitat needs, habitat requirements, indicators, landscape scale, prairie conservation, smooth green snake, spiders, too much bird research
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Last Gasp of Summer
Below are photos taken a week or so ago from a prairie here in Aurora, Nebraska. It’s the time of year when everything is preparing for winter. Most plants are done blooming and entering dormancy. A few are squeezing a … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – December 30, 2010
I photographed this juvenile wolf spider on an 18 degree (Fahrenheit) day in the middle of the winter. At the time, I was walking along a frozen creek, admiring the hoar frost on the surface and looking for photos of ice … Continue reading
