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Prairie

A Natural History

by Candace Savage
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Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present. With a total area of more than 3.5 million square kilometers (500,000 in Canada and the remainder in the United States), the prairies occupy the heartland of the continent, a vast, windswept plain that flows from Alberta south to Texas and from the Rockies east to the Mississippi River. This is big sky country—the largest ecosystem in North America and, until recently, one of the richest and most magnificent natural grasslands in the world. Today, however, the North American prairies are among the most altered environments on Earth.

  • Creators

  • Series

    David Suzuki Institute

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 15, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781553658993

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781553658993
      • File size: 19266 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 1, 2004
      "There are people who think of the prairie as boring, and it is hard not to pity them." Bergen's forthright and fetching celebration of America's grasslands sometimes feels almost as personal as it is informative, as the author, who's written numerous books (including Wild Cats and Born to Be a Cowgirl), traces the prairie from prehistory to the present. She shares her enthusiasm for her subject as easily as she shares facts about prairie ecosystems--their geography and climate, their flora and fauna, their taming by agriculture and their uncertain future. Photographs by James R. Page reveal the prairie in its vast, rolling spaces as well as in its intimate corners, where pincushion cacti bloom and red-winged blackbirds perch on cattails. Sidebars offer all sorts of additional information (on ants, droughts and skunks, just to name a few things) and maps and b&w illustrations further enliven the pages. Savage's instructive main text is lucid and thorough, making this a fantastic guide to North America's largest ecosystem.

    • Library Journal

      October 4, 2004
      "There are people who think of the prairie as boring, and it is hard not to pity them." Bergen's forthright and fetching celebration of America's grasslands sometimes feels almost as personal as it is informative, as the author, who's written numerous books (including Wild Cats and Born to Be a Cowgirl), traces the prairie from prehistory to the present. She shares her enthusiasm for her subject as easily as she shares facts about prairie ecosystems--their geography and climate, their flora and fauna, their taming by agriculture and their uncertain future. Photographs by James R. Page reveal the prairie in its vast, rolling spaces as well as in its intimate corners, where pincushion cacti bloom and red-winged blackbirds perch on cattails. Sidebars offer all sorts of additional information (on ants, droughts and skunks, just to name a few things) and maps and b&w illustrations further enliven the pages. Savage's instructive main text is lucid and thorough, making this a fantastic guide to North America's largest ecosystem.

      Copyright 2004 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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