Hype for the Future 105C: The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Introduction The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie is located within Will County, Illinois, by the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant. Today, the nearest community to the tallgrass prairie is Wilmington in the southern part of the county within the Greater Chicago area. Interactions Human-environment interaction, in particular based on the presence of American bison, is of common interest within the area of the tallgrass prairie. Though established under legislation distinct […]

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Hype for the Future 105C: The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Introduction The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie is located within Will County, Illinois, by the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant. Today, the nearest community to the tallgrass pr…

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Effect of genotypic richness, drought and mycorrhizal associations on productivity and functional traits of a dominant #C4Grass

#TallgrassPrairie | #AndropogonGerardii | #GeneticDiversity| #Mutualism

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac045

I never tire of these views. I was recently back in Kansas and was able to catch up with my old friend and photographer Scott Bean, https://scottbeanphoto.com, who twisted my arm to get me to go out for a quick photoshoot before I left town. Neither of us traditionally likes sunrises, but on this morning the light was perfect and the company was good.

#FlintHills #Kansas #Backroads #Prairie #TallgrassPrairie
Landscape Photographs by Scott Bean Photography - Nature Photography

Looking for Landscape Photographs? Scott Bean Photography specializes in nature photography with landscape photos of the prairie including the Flint Hills.

A rare #orchid survives on a few tracts of #prairie. Researchers want to learn its secrets https://phys.org/news/2024-08-rare-orchid-survives-tracts-prairie.html

"The orchid is a unique insight into its nearly vanished ecosystem—the #TallgrassPrairie—as well as for understanding connectedness with pollinators and other plants... The orchid's only known #pollinators are #hawkmoths, big #moths that are just the right fit and size to reach the orchid's nectar, in a long spur, while also pollinating the plant."

A rare orchid survives on a few tracts of prairie. Researchers want to learn its secrets

On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You'll only find it if you know where to look.

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"Feel your hands in a soft grass, waist-high and moving in a strong south wind. Smell the sweetness of that grass, and behold the biggest sky on Earth save above the open sea. If this be nothing, then for me nothing be heaven." —Sarah Smarsh for Orion Magazine

https://orionmagazine.org/article/prairie-grassland-restoration-north-america/

#Longreads #EditorsPick #TallGrassPrairie #Kansas #LandConservation #Restoration

Visiting a friend in Winnipeg. We went out to Beaudry Provincial Park, west of the city, where there is some very interesting tall grass prairie being restored. One of the flowers, new to me, was closed gentian. Magnificent.

#tallgrassprairie #Manitoba #gentian #prairieflowers #rewilding #restoration #flowerphotography #conservation

Ranger Sarah visits the most popular ranger at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, "Badger"

#adventuresofrangersarah #rangersarah #tallgrassprairie #outdooradventures #nationalpark

Ranger Sarah at the Historic Spring Hill Ranch Barn, a three story barn constructed from Cottonwood Limestone.
— at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

#adventuresofrangersarah #rangersarah #tallgrassprairie #history #outdooradventures #nationalpark