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Restoring the tallgrass prairie : an illustrated manual for Iowa and the upper Midwest / by Shirley Shirley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shirley, Shirley.
- Series:
- Bur oak original.
- Bur oak original
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prairie plants--Iowa.
- Prairie plants.
- Prairie plants--Middle West.
- Prairie plants--Iowa--Identification.
- Prairie plants--Middle West--Identification.
- Prairie restoration--Iowa.
- Prairie restoration.
- Prairie restoration--Middle West.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Restoring the tall grass prairie
- Restoring the tall grass prairie.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Iowa is the only state that lies entirely within the natural region of the tallgrass prairie. Early documents indicate that 95 percent of the state-close to 30 million acres-was covered by prairie vegetation at the time of Euro-American settlement. By 1930 the prairie sod had been almost totally converted to cropland; only about 30,000 acres of the original "great green sea" remained. Now, in this gracefully illustrated manual, Shirley Shirley has created a step-by-step guide to reconstructing the natural landscape of Iowa and the Upper Midwest.Chapters on planning, obtainin
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. History, Planning, and Planting; 1. Leaders in the History of the Tallgrass Prairie; 2. Planning Your Site; 3. Obtaining and Selecting Plants and Seeds; 4. Starting Seeds Indoors; 5. Preparing the Site for Planting; 6. Planting; 7. Maintenance; II. Prairie Species; 8. Wildflowers; 9. Grasses; Glossary; Pictorial Glossary; Order of Blooming; Butterfly Habitats; Family Characteristics; Sources for Seeds, Plants, and Equipment; Organizations Promoting Restoration; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587292200
- 1587292203
- OCLC:
- 44965793
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