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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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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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Ecotype – Problematic Concept in a Changing World

Posted on February 28, 2016 by prairiebotanist

For those reasons, “local is best” is the mantra, if not the dogma, of many in the conservation and restoration community. It’s a cautious and logical approach. However, in recognition of the altered and changing world we live in and recognizing that ecological restoration and reconstruction projects are essentially the only way many species can move across today’s fragmented landscape, I would urge people to be a little more liberal in how they apply the ecotype concept. Continue reading →

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