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To find a pasqueflower : a story of the tallgrass prairie / Greg Hoch.

"Description: The tallgrass prairie once stretched from Indiana to Kansas to Minnesota. Most of this land is now growing corn and soybeans. In To Find a Pasqueflower, Greg Hoch shows us that the tallgrass prairie is the most endangered ecosystem on the continent, but it's also an ecosystem...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hoch, Greg, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
Series:Bur oak book.
Subjects:
Prairie ecology > Great Plains.
Prairie ecology > Kansas.
Prairies > Great Plains.
Conservation of natural resources > Great Plains.
Conservation of natural resources.
Prairie ecology.
Prairies.
Great Plains.
Kansas.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Disclaimer
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Prairie, People, and Perceptions
  • A Prairie Education
  • Chapter 2. Where the Prairie Begins
  • The Next Prairie Visit
  • Chapter 3. Where the Prairie Ends
  • Personal Geographies
  • Chapter 4. Historic Prairie Fires
  • Prairie Wilderness
  • Chapter 5. A Stable, Balanced, Cooperative Equilibrium
  • Conversing with the Dead
  • Chapter 6. Prairie Flora
  • What We Know
  • Chapter 7. Modern Fires, Plant Community, and Productivity
  • Ashes to Ashes
  • Chapter 8. Prairie Remnants
  • Prairies I've Known.
  • Chapter 9. Prairie Belowground
  • Only Gravel Ridges Are Poor Enough
  • Chapter 10. Prairie Beasts
  • An Acceptable Substitute
  • Chapter 11. Prairie Feathers
  • Counting Chickens
  • Chapter 12. Prairie Insects
  • Two Worlds
  • Chapter 13. Patches, Mosaics, and Management
  • Through a Lens
  • Chapter 14. Prairie Trees
  • Lawns of God
  • Chapter 15. Prairie Restoration
  • Keeping the Cogs and Wheels
  • Chapter 16. New Advocates for Prairie Conservation
  • Prairie Spring
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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