Hubbard Fellowship Blog – Planning a Prairie Garden
A guest post by Anne Stine, one of our Hubbard Fellows: It just recently turned cold out, which means I’ve started daydreaming about next year’s garden. I am a native plant enthusiast, and I have...
View ArticleBest of Prairie Ecologist Photos – 2013
As promised, here are some my favorite photos from 2013. It was really tough to narrow these down to 22 (it was going to be 21, but see below) out of the roughly 1,800 images that were “keepers” from...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – May 7, 2015
As I’ve said many times, the prairie is an ecosystem best seen up close. You have to look carefully to see much of the beauty. Dillon (one of our Hubbard Fellows) and I were poking around today and...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – July 30, 2015
During our trip to the Grassland Restoration Network workshop in Minnesota last week, several of us got up early enough to catch sunrise at The Nature Conservancy’s Bluestem Prairie on two beautiful...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – May 19, 2016
Gjerloff Prairie, formerly known as Griffith Prairie, is a beautiful site on steep loess hills adjacent to the Platte River. It’s owned and managed by Prairie Plains Resource Institute, and was burned...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – August 18, 2016
There is an unmistakable look to late summer prairies, and that look is YELLOW. Sunflowers, goldenrods, and Silphiums (compass plant, cup plant, rosinweed) are all front and center this time of year....
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – April 20, 2017
I’ve been enjoying the early flush of wildflowers this spring, and have been trying to photograph them when I get time. Because I already have quite a few close-up portraits of most of these species...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – August 11, 2017
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that I take a lot of photos of insects, especially on flowers. For some reason, my eyes just gravitate toward flowers in...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – April 27, 2018
I feel like I need to apologize to long-time readers of this blog. This is the seventh spring season I’ve photographed and shared via this blog, and each of those spring seasons starts with...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – June 14, 2018
I took advantage of some nice light to take quite a few photos this week. Here is a small selection of unrelated images. Goatsbeard, aka yellow salsify (Tragopogon dubius) is a non-native plant that...
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