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- Join Us For The Platte River Prairies Field Day: July 12, 2013
- Keeping a Low Profile in the Spring
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- A Prickly Confrontation
- Photo of the Week – May 2, 2013
- Capturing Post-Wildfire Recovery Through Timelapse Photography
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- A Prairie Ecologist’s Perspective on Arbor Day
- Photo of the Week – April 25, 2013
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- The Annual Grassland Restoration Network Workshop – Coming to A Prairie Near You (If You’re Near Columbia, Missouri)
- A Weekend Walk in the Woods
- Photo of the Week – April 11, 2013
- An Ill Wind…
- Is Poison Hemlock Repelled By Plant Diversity? Early Results Say Yes
- Photo of the Week – April 5, 2013
- Why A Warming Climate Is Making This Spring So Cold (… and Last Spring So Warm)
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Photo of the Week – May 16, 2013
We spent two days in the southeast corner of Nebraska this week, pulling garlic mustard at our Rulo Bluffs Preserve. It was the second trip in as many weeks, and there was still plenty to do the second time around. … Continue reading
Posted in Prairie Management, Prairie Natural History, Prairie Photography, Prairie Plants
Tagged flower, hickory, may apple, nebraska, oak, rulo, rulo bluffs preserve, wildflower, woodland
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Photo of the Week – May 2, 2013
As I wrote in an earlier post, my boys and I were at our family prairie last weekend. Only three flower species were blooming. One of those was ground plum (Astragalus crassicarpus, aka buffalo pea), and I took several photos … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – November 23, 2012
No, they’re not orange blueberries… Also known as wild coffee because its fruits can be used as a substitute for coffee, late horse gentian’s orange fruits stand out in autumn woodlands. I found a small group of these plants on … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – June 29, 2012
This week I visited a portion of one of our restored prairies that I hadn’t been to for a while. During the last couple of years we’ve been grazing it fairly hard, so the wildflower displays haven’t been fantastic. I was … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – April 27, 2012
Blue Wild Indigo. I’m not sure there’s a more distinctive spring flower in the prairie. It’s hard to imagine confusing it with any other species… Also, it would be a great name for a band. The species just barely makes it … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – April 19, 2012
We’ve been a little short on April showers this spring, but the warm weather is bringing on plenty of flowers. The little prairie garden in our yard is greening up much faster than it normally does. Today, the False Solomon’s … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – August 19, 2011
No, someone didn’t toss a mess of orange plastic twine out in the prairie, though that’s certainly what it looks like. That crazy jumble of orange is the parasitic plant called dodder (Cuscuta sp.). It has no chlorophyll, so is … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – July 14, 2011
I have a hard time walking past black-eyed Susans when I have camera in hand. What’s not to like about them? I have countless photos of insects on black-eyed Susans, as well as hundreds of photos of the flowers themselves. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Prairie Photography, Prairie Plants
Tagged black eyed susan, grassland, photography, prairie, wildflower
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Sensitive Briar Explosion
It’s been a cool and wet year spring and summer here. Seed harvest is about 2 weeks behind schedule because plants are flowering later than in recent years, and we’re seeing unusual abundances (high and low) of some plant species. … Continue reading
Photo of the Week – June 30, 2011
It’s a great time to hike the trails at The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies! Regal fritillaries are out in force, along with a number of other butterfly and insect species, and big wildflower season has begun, with many of … Continue reading
