Photo of the Week – The Prairie Ecologist
Frost on top of ice on top of cold water. Read more here: http://prairieecologist.com/2012/02/24/photo-of-the-week-february-24-2012/
Frost on top of ice on top of cold water. Read more here: http://prairieecologist.com/2012/02/24/photo-of-the-week-february-24-2012/
Read about efforts to restore cottonwood woodlands in flood prone areas: http://prairieecologist.com/2012/02/21/restoring-cottonwoods-to-the-missouri-river-part-1/
By: Mike Groenewold, Park Horticulturist A new plant hardiness zone map released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will not only be of interest to gardeners, but anyone planting trees, shrubs or other ornamental plants. Since 1920, the USDA has published a Plant Hardiness Map that divides the country …
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/
If you’re like me, you get a kick out of Allstate’s “Mayhem” commercials on TV. Our Nebraska Game and Parks Commission crew got to see true mayhem Tuesday when a 60-foot-square net was dropped on about 60 bighorn sheep. About as many people, including 19 from Nebraska, sprinted from cover …
Greetings from Hinton, Alberta, at the foot of the Canadian Rockies and 1,800 miles from home, which is where I hope we’ll be headed Tuesday with four horse trailers full of bighorn sheep. That’s why I headed north with sixteen other Nebraska Game and Parks Commission staffers last week. We …
By Chris Helzer It sure looks like we’re going to have sandhill cranes around for the entire winter. In fact, the consensus among biologists is that the number of cranes has actually grown over the last couple of weeks. There was even a sighting of three whooping cranes this week, …
By Jeff Kurrus Days like today, when it’s 60 degrees, low wind, and still squirrel season, remind me of my pre-Nebraskaland days when I was a baseball coach. When I, the serious leader of young men I was, would find a reason to end practice prematurely so that I could …
By Jeff Kurrus I will be an in-studio guest tonight, January 26, on Jeff Rawlinson and Aaron Hershberger’s “The Nebraska Outdoors Radio Show” from 6 to 7 p.m. on KFOR 1240 AM in Lincoln and online at www.kfor1240.com. We will discuss hunting, fishing, other outdoor recreation in Nebraska, and my new children’s …
By Jeff Kurrus Today will be it for me in the deer woods. With the season closing 30 minutes after sunset, I will have watched the first sunrise of deer season and the last sunset. However, while I knew where I should be sitting on September 15, I have no …
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