Fast Announcement: We’re internet hosting two Plant Identification/Habitat Administration workshops in August. The primary is at The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies on August 12 and the second is on the Niobrara Valley Protect on August 19. In the course of the workshops, you’ll learn to determine a lot of prairie vegetation and get no matter further info I can consider for every of them. We’ll additionally take a look at numerous prairie restoration and administration approaches we’re testing and discuss what we’re studying.
These are free workshops (convey your individual lunch and consuming water) and can run from 9am to 2:30pm. Anybody is welcome. Please e-mail Kate Samuelson (kate.glause@tnc.org) to RSVP so we will contact you in case we modify plans due to climate.
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It’s been a enjoyable month for images. I haven’t had as a lot time as I’d have preferred, however I’ve managed to get out a number of instances. The prairies are teeming with invertebrates and it’s been straightforward to seek out a lot of enjoyable picture topics. Getting them to stay round for a photograph, in fact, is much less straightforward, however I’ve nonetheless managed it just a few instances.
It’s additionally a good time for wildlflower images proper now, with extra and bolder blossoms exhibiting up on a regular basis. The next photographs have been taken at my household prairie and Gjerloff Prairie.
Lastly, listed below are just a few photographs from the Platte River Prairies Subject Day final week. I didn’t have lots of time to do images, however I did get just a few photographs of our first session. Mike Schrad, Nebraska Grasp Naturalist, has been gathering information on small mammals for over a decade, serving to us to know how our prairie administration impacts these creatures. He’s additionally very beneficiant along with his time, and all the time keen to elucidate what he’s doing and educate others about mice and different little mammal species.
