A Prairie Mosaic
Author : Steven J. Rothenberger
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Steven J. Rothenberger
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : William Charles Sherman
Publisher : North Dakota State University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780911042887
Author : Carol Burns
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415949750
This volume, through theoretical essays and empirically grounded pieces on Le Corbusier's designs, contemporary suburbs, and the planning agendas of the World Trade Center site, provides theory on the appreciation of site and context in architecture.
Author : Suzanne Winckler
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1587294885
North America’s grasslands once stretched from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and across this considerable space different prairie types evolved to express the sum of their particular longitude and latitude, soils, landforms, and aspect. This prairie guide is your roadmap to what remains of this varied and majestic landscape. Suzanne Winckler’s goal is to encourage travelers to get off the highways, out of their cars, and onto North America’s last remaining prairies. She makes this adventure as easy as possible by providing exact driving directions to the more than three hundred sites in her guide. She also includes information about size, management, phone numbers, and outstanding characteristics for every prairie site and provides readers with a thorough list of recommended readings and Web sites. The scope of the guide is impressive. It encompasses prairies found within national grasslands, parks, forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, state parks, preserves, and natural areas and on numerous working ranches in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. A series of maps locate the prairies both geographically and by name. From “the largest restoration project within the historic range of tallgrass prairie” at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa to Big Bend National Park in Texas, where “the Chisos Mountains, completely surrounded by the park, rise up majestically from the Chihuahuan Desert floor,” Winckler celebrates the dramatic expanses of untouched prairie, the crown jewels of prairie reconstruction and restoration, and the neglected remnants that deserve to be treasured.
Author : Carl Kurtz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609380250
"Intended to encourage economical and functional prairie plant communities in the Midwest, this guide provides a formula for success for all but the most extreme conditions; it outlines the procedures and problems involved in reconstructing tallgrass prairies on large fields or in small backyards. In chapters on seed selection and harvest, site selection, soil preparation, seeding, post-planting mowing, burning, and growth and development - along with color photographs that are both beautiful and instructive - Kurtz presents a step-by-step guide to creating diverse and well-established prairie plant communities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Roger C. Aden
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786432063
This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed between native Nebraskans and the University of Nebraska football team. The author draws upon his experiences as a devoted "Huskerviller," and the insights of more than 500 other Husker fans who shared their ideas through interviews, questionnaires, and Internet communication, to compose a story that highlights how the culture, history, and geography of Nebraska are intimately embedded in fans' devotion to the Cornhuskers. The book features photographs and an extensive bibliography, while an appendix provides 16 essays written by devoted Husker fans.
Author : Paul Johnsgard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1609621441
This book profiles 60 of the most abundant, characteristic, and interesting birds that have been regularly reported from the Ucross Ranch and the adjacent Powder River Basin. The 20,000-acre Ucross Ranch lies on the western edge of the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming. Ucross is a textbook example of the prairie grassland/shrubland habitat type referred to as the sagebrush steppe, a landscape that is an icon of Wyoming's vast open spaces.We focus especially on those species that occur year-round or are present as breeders during the summer months, and we place emphasis on a unique group of sagebrush steppe-adapted birds.
Author : Bruce Roseland
Publisher : North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Descriptions of modern farm/ranch life with an appreciation for the past and a wry wit honed by the lonely winds of the prairie. Roseland's poems describe a life connected to the land.
Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1995-11-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521479806
An analysis and synthesis of the ecology of heterogeneous land areas.
Author : Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0375725199
"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Williams searches for meaning and community in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. In her compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, Williams affirms a reverence for all life, and constructs a narrative of hopeful acts, taking that which is broken and creating something whole.