Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Ecosystems & Habitats - Plains & Prairies

A respected author and scholar, Paul A. Johnsgard has spent a lifetime observing the natural delights of Nebraska s woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands. Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie collects his musings on Nebraska s natural history and the issues of conservation facing our future.

Johnsgard crafts essays featuring snow geese, owls, hummingbirds, and other creatures against the backdrop of Great Plains landscapes. He describes prairie chickens courting during predawn hours and the calls of sandhill cranes; he evokes the magic of lying upon the prairie, hearing...

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals."

In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of...

A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska

Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population.

A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the most powerful literary voices on the Great Plains, Dan O'Brien has managed his own ethically run buffalo ranch since 1997. Drawing on both extensive research and...

In 1892, Maggie Halbert left her home and the newly-settled farmlands of North-central Kansas for the rugged and unsettled regions of the new state of Montana. She bravely ventured from a reasonably-civilized community into rough-hewn and hastily-built mining and ranching habitations resting in the valleys and on the mountainsides around Wise River, Montana. The youngest of seven children, Maggie faced this unknown and untamed environment to take her first teaching job, fresh out of high school.

Maggie Halbert Hand was a contemporary of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little...

The Texas Hill Country is a special place. It is its ecology--the combination of the climate, the topography, the creeks and rivers, the plants and animals--that make it so.

This book describes the Hill Country ecology for current, as well as for new and prospective, residents. It seeks to teach readers
about the Hill Country, including the native habitat, the land, the water, the plants, the animals, the people, and the myriad interactions among them. It is a series of brief, easy-to-read essays that have originally appeared in the Kerrville Daily Times under his weekly...