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Photo of the Week – October 21, 2011
Garden spiders, aka black and yellow argiopes, are one of the most recognizable spiders in many prairies (not to mention backyards). In fact, my kids spent several weeks this August doing daily checks...
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What Do Grassland Birds Need for Migratory Habitat?
A new study sheds (a little) light on a slice of grassland bird life we know very little about. We know a lot about grassland birds. Sure, there’s a lot we don’t know too – but we certainly know a lot...
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Photo of the Week – November 11, 2011
Sometimes the simplest things make the best photos. The below photo was taken right outside my back door, and is just two fallen sycamore leaves overlapping each other. When photographing leaf...
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Bee Goggles
One of the best outcomes from learning a lot about a group of species is that I start to see prairie through their eyes. That perspective has been really valuable for me and has led me to evaluate,...
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Photo of the Week – October 17, 2013
Last month, our Platte River Prairies crew visited a South Dakota farm owned by our friends Gerry Steinauer and Grace Kostel. Gerry showed us around the farm, including some prairies he and Grace have...
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Photo of the Week – October 24, 2013
I spent yesterday along the North Platte River, about 150 miles upstream (west) of our Platte River Prairies. The wind picked up in the afternoon, and leaves from the cottonwood trees in the riparian...
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Photo of the Week – November 14, 2013
Last week, I took a short early morning trip out to my family prairie. As the sun came up, its light was caught beautifully by the fuzzy seeds of various prairie plants, particularly stiff goldenrod...
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Photo of the Week – September 18, 2014
I’m writing this from The Nature Conservancy’s Niobrara Valley Preserve in north-central Nebraska, where I’m attending a prescribed fire planning workshop. The weather up here is beautiful, and the...
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Caterpillar Crossing
While driving through central Nebraska last week, I couldn’t help notice all the fuzzy creatures crossing the highway in front of me. They weren’t raccoons, deer, or even voles. They were tiny little...
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Photo of the Week – October 23, 2014
I needed a walk in the prairie the other evening. There are times when I just need to change focus and think about something besides my own life, and hiking through a grassland is the perfect tonic....
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Snake Season!
It’s a great time of year to see snakes. As the weather cools in the fall, snakes are especially drawn to places where they can soak up warm sunlight during the middle part of the day. That makes it...
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Photo of the Week – November 12, 2015
Most prairie plants have now traded their summer colors for the browns and golds of fall. The low angle of the sun this time of year shines rich warm light across the grassland. As a special bonus,...
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Photo of the Week – September 1, 2016
Two weeks ago, I posted about Yellow Season in prairies. That annual phenomenon continues, and at our family prairie this week, stiff goldenrod was front and center. Pollinators and pollen-eating...
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Photo of the Week – October 20, 2016
Rosinweed (Silphium integrifolium) seeds hang tenuously to the flower head. Lincoln Creek Prairie (Prairie Plains Resource Institute) in Aurora, Nebraska. I stole an hour of photography time this week...
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Photo of the Week – November 3, 2016
To this prairie photographer, milkweed seeds are like candy – I just can’t get enough. As I’ve walked around this fall, I’ve had a very difficult time walking past any milkweed plant without stopping...
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Photo of the Week – November 18, 2016
Back in April, I wrote a post about the regrowth after one of our spring prescribed fires. That’s a fun time of year to burn because the growing season is getting started and the response of green...
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