Photo of the Week – The Prairie Ecologist
Can you tell whether these are moths or butterflies? How?
Find out here: http://prairieecologist.com/2012/02/17/photo-of-the-week-february-17-2012/
Can you tell whether these are moths or butterflies? How?
Find out here: http://prairieecologist.com/2012/02/17/photo-of-the-week-february-17-2012/
And you should too…
Read why here:
http://prairieecologist.com/2012/01/18/why-i-care-about-prairies-and-you-should-too/
People have figured out some very creative ways to harvest, clean, and plant prairie seed. Read a call for examples of these – along with a couple from The Prairie Ecologist.
http://prairieecologist.com/2012/01/17/innovations-and-inventions-in-prairie-restoration/
A technician burns the silks off of milkweed seeds at The Nature Conservancy's Platte River Prairies.
I posted back in December about an unusual concentration of sandhill cranes on the Platte River this winter. They’re still here. Dr. Larkin Powell of UNL posted an update on the situation today at his own blog site. You can find a link to that update here:
http://prairieecologist.com/2012/01/16/update-on-the-sandhill-cranes/
A family outing, some good conservation work, and some rock chucking. Read all about it here: http://prairieecologist.com/2012/01/09/seeding-with-my-son/
