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Prairie - A North American Guide

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext NORTH America's grasslands once stretched from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and across this considerable space different prairie types evolved to express the sum of their particular longitude and latitude, soils, landforms, and aspect. This prairie guide is your roadmap to what remains of this varied and majestic landscape. Suzanne Winckler's goal is to encourage travelers to get off the highways, out of their cars, and onto North America's last remaining prairies. She makes this adventure as easy as possible by providing exact driving directions to the more than three hundred sites in her guide. She also includes information about size, management, phone numbers, and outstanding characteristics for every prairie site and provides readers with a thorough list of recommended readings and Web sites. The scope of the guide is impressive. It encompasses prairies found within national grasslands, parks, forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, state parks, preserves, and natural areas and on numerous working ranches in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. A series of maps locate the prairies both geographically and by name. From "the largest restoration project within the historic range of tallgrass prairie" at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa to Big Bend National Park in Texas, where "the Chisos Mountains, completely surrounded by the park, rise up majestically from the Chihuahuan Desert floor," Winckler celebrates the dramatic expanses of untouched prairie, the crown jewels of prairie reconstruction and restoration, and the neglected remnants that deserve to be treasured. Zusammenfassung A guide to America's last remaining prairies! the book includes information about size! management! phone numbers and outstanding characteristics for each together with recommended readings! web sites and maps.

Product details

Authors Suzanne Winckler
Publisher University Of Iowa Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.03.2004
 
EAN 9780877458838
ISBN 978-0-87745-883-8
No. of pages 136
Dimensions 133 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
Series Bur Oak Guides
Bur Oak Guide
A Bur Oak Guide
Bur Oak Guide
Bur Oak Guides
Subjects Guides > Nature > Garden
Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works
Travel > Travel guides > World, Arctic, Antarctic

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