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Island of Grass
Island of Grass tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is a remnant of the once-vast prairies of the West that early European explorers and settlers described as seas of grass. A...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol :
University Press of Colorado,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1: The Sea of Grass; 2: Islands and Archipelagos; 3: Grassroots; 4: Life Among the Leaves of Grass; 5: Keystone of the Shortgrass Prairie; 6: Hunters of the Grasslands; 7: On the Prairie Winds; Bibliography; Glossary of common and scientific names of animals and plants described in the text; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Island of Grass tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is a remnant of the once-vast prairies of the West that early European explorers and settlers described as seas of grass. Agricultural land use and urban expansion during the past two centuries have fragmented and altered these prairies. All that remains today are small islands. These remnants cannot support some of the larger animals that once roamed the prairie, but they continue to support a diverse array of plant. | ||
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