#prairie — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #prairie, aggregated by home.social.
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Prairie enthusiasm in the news.
"Leif Mountain Preserve is in a part of the state that has long been dominated by farmland but was never plowed or tilled itself. Part of what made it so valuable as conservation land is what made it only marginal as cropland — it’s full of steep hills and small ponds."
Two decades of restoration efforts in Minnesota show that regular fires help native grasses and wildflowers thrive while keeping invasive plants in check.
By Greg Stanley
The Minnesota Star Tribune
https://www.startribune.com/to-bring-a-prairie-back-to-life-burn-it/601879439?utm_source=gift -
Where The Wind Brought Us
We didn't so much seek each other out as arrive at the same place and time, two lives the wind had deposited there. We didn't anchor each other. We learned to lean into the same wind.https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/where-the-wind-brought-us/
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A plant to plant, not a plant to dose. Cha bhris am freumh — the root does not break.
What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #SolarpunkThis lands free in inboxes every morning if you want it → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers.
Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off.
The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century.
What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk2/3
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Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on.
Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September.
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk
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#NativePlants #WildFlowers #Prairie
A few years ago, I put some swamp #MilkWeed in a little area around our mailbox. Bees love it. Butterflies visit it. But last year we had multiple monarch caterpillars in it.
This morning, our video doorbell was blocked by something. It was a monarch caterpillar hanging out on the camera. When I put it in the milkweed, I found them all over. We've got a chrysalis on our house and 4 more making them. There's at least 15 'pillars in the little ~3'x3' patch.
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#Blog #Blogging #Wildflowers #NativePlants #Prairie #Iowa
New post on my blog!
“Hillside Prairie” is a reworking of a post I had on another site. I’ve added some new wildflower photos and tried to tell the story more clearly.
(I still don’t like how photo galleries function on #Wordpress. Even though I make separate galleries, all the photos are linked as if in a single gallery. Anyone know a fix for that?)
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This is traditional American Tall-Grass Prairie! Big bluestem grass growing here is taller than everyone hiking through it, 6 to 7 feet tall (>2m).
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A light covering of clouds kept things cool for a hike around the southern prairie at Frontenac State Park over the weekend. Despite the hot, dry summer, the prairie was doing quite well!
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Some yellow(ish) birds this morning at Buffalo Trace Prairie, Champaign County, Illinois, USA: Orchard Oriole, Dickcissel, American Goldfinch, Common Yellowthroat
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Practically perfect practices to pull in pollinators https://www.allforgardening.com/1930979/practically-perfect-practices-to-pull-in-pollinators/ #ButterflyGarden #GardeningIowa #Iowa #NativeLawn #NativePlant #PollinatorGarden #prairie
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#Wildflowers #NativePlants #Prairie #Iowa
From yesterday’s #DailyWalk:
Rosinweed (Silphium integrifolium) — probably less known than its famous cousins Cup Plant and Compass Plant.
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A plant to plant, not a plant to dose. Cha bhris am freumh — the root does not break.
What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #SolarpunkThis lands free in inboxes every morning if you want it → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers.
Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off.
The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century.
What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk2/3
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Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on.
Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September.
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk
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Sunshine and smoke, Lyons Ranch area, Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more about the park at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://fire.airnow.gov/#10/41.1344/-123.5736 and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood #interpretation #cawx #california Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #summer #lookout #watershed #prairie #grassland #oak #woodland #fire #smoke #airquality
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voilà une vidéo plein de surprises, avec le portrait d'un terrain devenu prairie depuis 1,5 ans après avoir été champ de maïs, des infos et des conseils sur la tonte, et une chanson avec un clip à la fin
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#Wildflowers #NativePlants #Prairie #Iowa
I spent a while today down at the Old Railroad Prairie, lopping off some more pesky saplings. Lots of flowers these days.
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A border lining our patio.
Echinacea purpurea, Gaura, Verbena hastata, Verbena bonariensis, ornamental grasses and wildflowers, such as poppies, mullein and several other self-sown individuals, before the draught bleached lawn give this border a meadow or prairie-like appearance.#ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #sustainable #summer #bloomscrolling #biodiversity #natural #NaturalGarden #WeedGardening #weeds #wildflowers #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #PollinatorFriendly #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability #SelfSown #meadow #prairie
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In the Great Quiet: A Novel
"A woman haunted by secrets and searching for home "
Sale: $3.99 to $1.99
by Laura Vogt
Rating: 4.2/5 (14,668 Reviews)
#books #historicalfiction #westerns #romance #frontier #prairie #homestead #pioneer #booksky
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View of Vet School Prairie Garden Looking Towards Boice Thompson Institute and Tower Road
#photo #photography #cornell #garden #prairie #bloomscrolling #flowers #buildngs #architecture #landscape
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In the Great Quiet: A Novel
"An epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home"
Sale: $3.99 to $1.99
by Laura Vogt
Rating: 4.2/5 (14,437 Reviews)
#historical #fiction #western #romance #frontier #prairie #homestead #pioneer #women #books #booksky
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Where Coyotes Howl
"The town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming"
Sale: $19 to $1.99
by Sandra Dallas
Rating: 4.3/5 (1,269 Reviews)
#historicalfiction #western #prairie #wyoming #books #booksky #love #drama #frontier #literature
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A few birds in Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, IL, USA, this morning: Common Yellowthroat on White False Indigo, Red-winged Blackbird (f) on Rattlesnake Master, Song Sparrow on Compass Plant, Willow Flycatcher
#Birds #BirdPhotography #Prairie #Illinois #Urbana #MeadowbookPark
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#Colorado - Residents celebrate game-changing agreement for crucial US nature area: 'My goal has always been to preserve'
by Misty Layne
Wed, December 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM"Land conservation is more important than ever, as changes in the climate and increased #urbanization have brought about habitat loss.
"According to Hoodline, one ranch owner in Colorado did their part to support land conservation while also securing the future of their 675-acre property through a significant donation that placed the property under a #ConservationEasement.
"A conservation easement is a legal agreement that permanently limits how landowners can use their land to protect its conservation value.
"#LegendTrailRanch in Northern Colorado is found in the Laramie Foothills region, an area targeted by the Larimer County Open Lands Master Plan as essential for land conservation. In particular, the ranch's proximity to U.S. Hwy 287 makes it a vital parcel of protected lands in Larimer County.
"Significant conservation work has already happened in the Laramie Foothills region. For example, Great Outdoors Colorado funded the Mountains to Plains Project in 2004, which was, at the time, the largest Great Outdoors Colorado grant of all time — an $11.6 million request plus an estimated local match totaling $13.7 million. Overall, through the years and various projects and partnerships, 140,000 acres of land in the Laramie Foothills have been protected.
"This protected land connects the plains to the mountains, providing a key corridor for #wildlife movement in the region, which is just one reason conservation of this area is so important. Additionally, current and future projects aim to collect #seeds to restore #Prairie land and manage invasive plants and #weeds, thereby protecting #NativeSpecies, conserving natural resources, and economically benefiting those living in the area.
"Legend Trail Ranch offers up working #agricultural lands, rock #outcroppings, and rolling grasslands for conservation. With the conservation easement, Legend Trail Ranch can not only continue using the land for growing hay, grazing cattle, and other agricultural uses, but also protect local #ecosystems, #biodiversity, wildlife habitats, and the land's incredibly scenic views.
"As Hoodline reported, the ranch's landowner, Cheryl Rennels, shared, 'My goal has always been to preserve the agricultural way of life I grew up in and currently enjoy. Partnering with Larimer County permanently conserves what I value: agriculture lifestyle, livestock, wildlife and the beauty of the Livermore Valley.' "
Source:
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Planning lessons harvested from the Kansas prairie
Just some cultivated planning thoughts from our multiple trips to and through the Sunflower State. These lessons are not provided in order of importance. Peace!
Source: fity.club- The beauty of a prairie is subtle. It’s not sharply defined by mountain peak nor a rugged coastline. Instead, it is shaped by the elegant blossom of a sunflower, by the rich amber fields of of wheat waving in the breeze, by a towering thunderhead in the distance, by an old barn set against a blue horizon, by a solitary meadowlark singing on a fencepost, or by countless other features that both depict and define the Great Plains.
- Reuse or re-adaptation of grain elevators and silos as murals, event venues, and climbing towers are excellent community placemaking options.
- What lies beneath the earth can be just as important, if not more important than what is situated at the surface. The Ogallala Aquifer and post rock limestone are just two examples.
- In the same vein, the hidden human talent lying just beneath the surface in Small Town America is an underutilized resource that more communities need to learn how to tap.
- Lawrence, Kansas is one of those special college towns that exudes eclectic fun, energy, electricity, and a cultural vibrancy that radiates throughout the community. If that could only be bottled…
- Some of the most interesting and rewarding places to visit while traveling are away from the interstate. Taking extra time to explore off the beaten path provides many useful and unexpected insights for a community planner. You never quite know when you will stumble on the next great idea, but it sure won’t be from the freeway.
- Placemaking takes just a seed of an idea, which when planted, watered, and cared for, yields a bountiful harvest. Often communities tend to overthink it by being grandiose. Meanwhile, the best initial ideas come from the low-hanging fruit. In Wilson, Kansas it was their Czech heritage, while in Wamego, it was adopting a Wizard of Oz theme for the town.
- For when you do need to be on a highway, every other toll road in the United States needs to take lessons from the Kansas Turnpike. It is by far the best run and maintained highway in the country.
- Kansas, like other states in the Heartland is often dissed as boring by those from elsewhere. Every state (and every place) has a story to tell and lessons to teach. It’s just a matter of taking the time to learn the insights.
#agriculture #cities #communications #culture #environment #fun #geography #GreatPlains #heartland #history #Kansas #lessons #MidAmerica #planning #prairie #smallTowns #tourism #transportation #travel
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I don't recall what kind of flower this is, I got the seedling from a purveyor of regional plants a couple springs ago, thought it died and then never got around to reseeding this window box this year, yet here it is sprouting and blooming mightily on its own again. #mosstadon #prairie #flower #stlouis #bloom #bloomscrolling
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Small Waterbodies Of Large Conservation Concern - Towards An Integrated Approach To More Accurately Measuring Surface Water Dynamics
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113525 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS
• Hydrologic models were used to assess remotely sensed surface water estimates.
• The accuracy of satellite surface water estimates diminished for waterbodies < 2 ha.
• Vegetation reduces accuracy of surface water detection, especially during wet years..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #waterbodies #Conservation #planning #surfacewater #Hydrologicmodeling #remotesensing #earthobservation #water #hydrology #hydrographic #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #waterbody #small #conservation #inventory #monitoring #accuracy #aquatic #vegetation #climate #NorthAmerica #kettle #landforms #landcover #glaciation #prairie #pothole -
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The #prairie was in full bloom on my ride today #biking #illinois #barrington #LakeZurich
