Restoring the tallgrass prairie : an illustrated manual for Iowa and the upper Midwest /
"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 - close to 30 million acres - was covered by prairie vegetation at the time of Euro-American settlement. By 1930 the prairie sod had been almost t...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Iowa City, IA :
University of Iowa Press,
©1994.
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| Collection: | Bur oak original.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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 - close to 30 million acres - 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 "great green sea" 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."--Publisher |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1587292203 9781587292200 |


