By Paul Gruchow
ISBN-10: 0816614253
ISBN-13: 9780816614257
ISBN-10: 0816614261
ISBN-13: 9780816614264
A lifelong resident of southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa, Paul Gruchow celebrated the few scattered patches of prairie land that stay in a area as soon as ruled by means of grasslands. Gruchow recorded his recommendations, observations, and reviews in each one season at the prairie, finally compiling them into this relocating chronicle of a occasionally harsh yet regularly wonderful panorama. Be it the sour winds of wintry weather, the go back of the ducks in spring, or the 1st pasque flower, the cycles of development at the prairie have the facility to maneuver and encourage fanatics of nature.
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They were the seed-eating rodents. They would be subsisting now mainly on the stores they had put away before snowfall, although when these supplies ran low, some 22 sustenance was still to be had from the roots and stems that were exposed along the corridors of their hidden houses. In spring, in summer, in fall, the rodents, like the rabbits, had to be constantly on guard. Every creature, from one of its larger relatives on up the food chain to the foxes and coyotes and wolves and including all the birds of prey, might find a rodent to be a suitable meal.
Plant growth will come sooner and will be more vigorous where there has been fire. As plants grow and die and become part of the litter of the prairie floor, they absorb quantities of nutrients from the earth. Fire liberates these nutrients too, making the potash and phosphorus and some of the trace minerals available to be leached back into the earth again. The nitrogen in the plant material goes up with the smoke into the air. It comes down again in the form of rain. The burned-over prairie will be ready to capture it.
But I could find no fresh sign of active life anywhere on that high and exposed remnant of lost world: no bird in the sky, no new track underfoot, no stray tuft of hair or feather in the grass to give some sign of life on earth or above it. With one exception. Elaborate chambers were tunneled in the thick prairie sod, each of them with an exit through the snow to the featureless plain above. These exits tended to be hidden in bunches of grass, but they could not be altogether obscured. The tunnels were the passageways and dwelling places of the resident mice and voles and shrews, which either alternated between hibernation and feeding or remained active throughout the winter.
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