To Find a Pasqueflower: A Story of the Tallgrass Prairie

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-60938-825-6
Verlag: University of Iowa Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 202 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Bur Oak Book

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 that people can play an active role in restoring. 

Hoch blends history, culture, and science into a unified narrative of the tallgrass prairie, with an emphasis on humans’ participation in its development and destruction. Hoch also demonstrates how variable and dynamic the prairie is, creating both challenges and opportunities for those who manage and restore and appreciate it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoch, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Ebenen & Grasland

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Hoch works as a prairie habitat supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He is author of Booming from the Mists of Nowhere: The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken (Iowa, 2015), Sky Dance of the Woodcock: The Habits and Habitats of a Strange Little Bird (Iowa, 2019), and With Wings Extended: A Leap into the Wood Duck’s World (Iowa, 2020). He lives near Cambridge, Minnesota.