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Subject(s)

• Prairie plants—Iowa [Browse]
• Prairie plants—Middle West [Browse]
• Prairie plants—Iowa—Identification [Browse]
• Prairie plants—Middle West—Identification [Browse]
• Restoration ecology—Iowa [Browse]
• Restoration ecology—Middle West [Browse]

Series

• Bur oak original [More in this series]
• A Bur oak original

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

System details

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Source of description

Print version record.

Other title(s)

Restoring the tall grass prairie

ISBN

• 1587292203 ((electronic bk.))
• 9781587292200 ((electronic bk.))

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