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Whip-poor-wills

Posted on March 14, 2018 by prairiebotanist

Will whip-poor-wills continue to call from the forest edge behind our house or the aspen grove at the cabin up north for long enough for our son to hear them and remember them, so that he might recount them once … Continue reading →

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Conserve Plant Diversity First

Posted on January 6, 2017 by prairiebotanist

At least that’s the message I take from a recent study published in Nature Communications entitled Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change. In particular they found a higher risk of animal co-extinction with … Continue reading →

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The Yard—2016

Posted on December 8, 2016 by prairiebotanist

Axial tilt is getting to me, so I thought I’d look back on some more manic times in our native landscape from earlier this year. Our garden was in its third growing season and its flora was closing in on … Continue reading →

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