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Author Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer.

Title Fragile giants : a natural history of the Loess Hills / Cornelia F. Mutel.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Series A Bur oak original
Bur oak original.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
Contents Natural History of the Loess Hills -- Introduction -- Ancient Landscapes and Communities : Earliest Times: Laying down the Ancient Bedrock ; The Ice Age -- Humans Come to the Hills : Human Cultures of the Loess Hills ; Natural Changes in Holocene Native Communities, Climate, and Landforms ; Effects of Euro-American Settlement on the Natural Landscape -- Physical Characteristics of Today's Loess Hills : Characteristics of Loess ; Shapes of the Loess ; Hidden within the Loess ; Soils ; Climate -- Natural Communities of the Loess Hills Today : Prairies ; Woodlands ; Rare Species and Special Features -- The Loess Hills of the Future : Preservation of Natural Areas ; Management of Natural Features ; Research Efforts in the Hills ; Education and Interpretation -- Epilogue: Taking a Broader View -- Touring the Loess Hills -- Introduction -- Public Use Areas and Educational Resources : Iowa ; Missouri ; Nebraska -- Northern Tour: Sioux City Area and North into Plymouth County -- Central Tour: DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge to Loess Hills Wildlife Area -- Southern Tour: Southern Loess Hills in Iowa and Missouri and Southeastern Nebraska.
Note Print version record.
Subject Natural history -- Loess Hills (Iowa and Mo.)
Natural history -- Nebraska.
Ecology -- Loess Hills (Iowa and Mo.)
Ecology -- Nebraska.
NATURE -- Essays.
NATURE -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Nebraska. (OCoLC)fst01208998
United States -- Loess Hills. (OCoLC)fst01311138
Added Title Loess Hills
Other Form: Print version: Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer. Fragile giants. 1st ed. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1989 0877452571 (DLC) 89035497 (OCoLC)19975878
ISBN 1587291622 (electronic bk.)
9781587291623 (electronic bk.)
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