A Slide Show of Nebraska Nature Photos
Caterpillar on false gromwell. Griffith Prairie - north of Aurora, Nebraska. This fall, I was honored to be the banquet speaker at the first annual conference of the Nebraska Natural Legacy Project...
View ArticleRevised Slideshows of Nebraska Nature
At the request of many of you, I’ve added captions to the slideshow photos I posted last November. Those slideshows can always be found from the home page of this blog (under the Photography Page)....
View ArticleWatching the Sandhills Bounce Back at the Niobrara Valley Preserve
I took our Hubbard Fellows up to the Niobrara Valley Preserve in north-central Nebraska last week. While we were there, I spent quite a bit of time in the east bison pasture, where the recovery of...
View ArticleHubbard Fellowship Blog – Planning a Prairie Garden
A guest post by Anne Stine, one of our Hubbard Fellows: It just recently turned cold out, which means I’ve started daydreaming about next year’s garden. I am a native plant enthusiast, and I have...
View ArticleFrom the Ashes
Last Friday, I wandered through the small prairie we burned back on March 10. Even though it is still very early spring, there were already a number of prairie plants popping out of the ground. I...
View ArticleIn Defense of Erosion
The Nebraska Sandhills region consists of about 12 million acres of sand dunes with a thin layer of vegetation draped across them. That vegetation has come and gone over the last several thousand...
View ArticleHubbard Fellowship Blog – Olivia Marvels at the Persistence of Plants
This post was written by Olivia Schouten, one of our Hubbard Fellows this year. Olivia is an excellent scientist, with strong expertise in plants and plant communities, as you’ll be able to see from...
View ArticlePrairie Word of the Day – Phenology
Hello, and welcome to the fifth edition of the popular series, “Prairie Word of the Day.” This is the series that has previously brought you such inspiring words/phrases as Tiller, Habitat...
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