| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations. |
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A Bur oak original |
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Bur oak original.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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 and mdash;close to 30 million acres and mdash;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 and ldquo;great green sea and rdquo; 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, ob. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Subject |
Prairie plants -- Iowa.
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Prairie plants -- Middle West.
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Prairie plants -- Iowa -- Identification.
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Prairie plants -- Middle West -- Identification.
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Restoration ecology -- Iowa.
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Restoration ecology -- Middle West.
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GARDENING -- Ornamental Plants.
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GARDENING -- Climatic -- Temperate.
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GARDENING -- Flowers -- General.
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Prairie plants -- Middle West.
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Prairie plants -- Iowa -- Identification.
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Prairie plants -- Middle West -- Identification.
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Restoration ecology -- Iowa.
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Restoration ecology -- Middle West.
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Prairie plants -- Iowa.
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Prairie plants. (OCoLC)fst01074609
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Restoration ecology. (OCoLC)fst01095983
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Iowa. (OCoLC)fst01205835
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Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
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Prärie.
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Renaturierung <Ökologie>.
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Mittlerer Westen.
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Iowa.
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| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks. (OCoLC)fst01423871
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| Added Title |
Restoring the tall grass prairie |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Shirley, Shirley. Restoring the tallgrass prairie. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1994 087745468X (DLC) 94007374 (OCoLC)29954202 |
| ISBN |
1587292203 (electronic bk.) |
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9781587292200 (electronic bk.) |
