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The Smolenski Prairie Restoration (Slideshow)
The Smolenski Prairie Restoration (Slideshow) YouTube video by JBtheExplorer

I finally put together this six minute slideshow featuring the Smolenski park prairie restoration and the plants and animals in it. Six years ago it was a weedy unused farm field, now it's habitat!

#nativeplants #prairie #prairierestoration #pollinators #birds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7MJ...

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Where The Prairie Still Remains | NOEMA Are pioneer cemeteries key to the Iowa prairie’s revival, or its final resting place?

“Set aside before industrial agriculture arrived in Iowa, pioneer cemeteries have become the prairie’s final resting place — one of the few where the land remembers what it once was.”

– @christianelliott.me

#prairie #prairierestoration #ecosystems

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Halloween pennant dragonfly

Halloween pennant dragonfly

Wild turkey

Wild turkey

Plains garter snake

Plains garter snake

Yellow garden spider

Yellow garden spider

Today's throwback is to the Smolenski Park prairie restoration in warmer weather. It's been awhile since I've been out there. Gonna have to talk myself into getting back out in the cold and visiting it.

#prairie #habitat #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #wildlife #animals #Wisconsin

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Photograph of a wild hyacinth (Camassia scilloides) bloom with out of focus flowers and green foliage in the background. The view is from above looking down on the end of a tall inflorescence with many blooms extending outward and up and down a central stalk. Wild hyacinths have white flowers with lavender streaks down the length of the petals. Each flower has five-pointed petals arranged in a star pattern that radiate from a center with five white stamens with bright yellow anthers and a bright yellow-green pistil with a white stigma.

Photograph of a wild hyacinth (Camassia scilloides) bloom with out of focus flowers and green foliage in the background. The view is from above looking down on the end of a tall inflorescence with many blooms extending outward and up and down a central stalk. Wild hyacinths have white flowers with lavender streaks down the length of the petals. Each flower has five-pointed petals arranged in a star pattern that radiate from a center with five white stamens with bright yellow anthers and a bright yellow-green pistil with a white stigma.

Wild hyacinth.

#flowers #nativeplants #FlowerPhotography #PrairieRestoration #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #AltText

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Indigenous populations have used it for making goods like baskets and thatching for roofs. Today, it's commonly used in landscaping and restoring prairies.
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#prairierestoration #touchgrass

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Beyond the Ridge
#prairie #NachusaGrasslands #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #grasslands #prairierestoration #naturephotography #hiking #thenatureconservancy #conservation #photography #ecology #ecosystem #Illinois

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Another visit with the yellow garden spider in the prairie! Gotta take advantage while it's still there!

#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #spider

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Bumble be on a sawtooth sunflower.

Bumble be on a sawtooth sunflower.

Stiff goldenrod

Stiff goldenrod

A very yellow prairie during golden hour.

A very yellow prairie during golden hour.

Me, looking out over the prairie.

Me, looking out over the prairie.

"You belong among the wildflowers...

...you belong somewhere you feel free"

#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants

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Smolenski park prairie restoration.

Smolenski park prairie restoration.

Evening primrose standing above the sea of goldenrod

Evening primrose standing above the sea of goldenrod

Thick-headed fly

Thick-headed fly

Monarch butterfly on goldenrod

Monarch butterfly on goldenrod

I had some extra photos from my recent walks in the prairie that I didn't know if or when I'd share them, but now seems like a good time.

#prairie #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #butterfly #nativeplants

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Katydid on goldenrod

Katydid on goldenrod

Black saddlebags dragonfly on goldenrod.

Black saddlebags dragonfly on goldenrod.

Monarch butterfly on goldenrod.

Monarch butterfly on goldenrod.

Ruby meadowhawk on an old stem.

Ruby meadowhawk on an old stem.

More life in the Smolenski prairie restoration. A katydid, black saddlebags dragonfly, many monarchs, and a ruby meadowhawk.

#prairie #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #insects

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One more set. Yellow garden spider, Smolenski prairie.

#yellowgardenspider #spider #prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration 🕷️

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Why yes, I did go back over to the prairie to visit the yellow garden spider this morning!

#yellowgardenspider #spider #prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration 🕷️

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I cant even believe it!

I've waited at least 25 years to see another one of these! I kept telling myself this was going to be the year and I can't believe it actually was! 😍

Yellow garden spider. Seen during today's prairie walk.

#yellowgardenspider #spider #prairie #prairierestoration 🕷️

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Saw-tooth sunflower

Saw-tooth sunflower

Grasshopper sitting on the trail.

Grasshopper sitting on the trail.

A shot of the prairie, mainly blue vervain in this area.

A shot of the prairie, mainly blue vervain in this area.

Monarch butterfly on goldenrod.

Monarch butterfly on goldenrod.

Today's prairie hike.

#tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #prairie #wisconsin

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More photos from the prairie.

#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants

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This orb weaver made a web between native grasses.

This orb weaver made a web between native grasses.

Pearl crescent

Pearl crescent

Sawtooth sunflower

Sawtooth sunflower

Thick-headed fly

Thick-headed fly

Another fantastic evening wandering around the Smolenski park prairie restoration!

#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants #pollinators #butterfly #sunflower #MorePrairiePlease

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Book excerpt: 'Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie' • Minnesota Reformer Glacial Ridge would become another example of the human capacity to transform landscapes, only this time it would be from cropland back to prairie. 

Once, MN was covered in tallgrass prairies—now mostly gone. 🌾 Sea of Grass traces their loss and the fight to restore them, including Glacial Ridge, the largest U.S. prairie restoration. #PrairieRestoration #SeaOfGrass #MinnesotaNature

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30 seconds in the Smolenski Park prairie restoration.

#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nature

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Milkweed tussock moth caterpillars on common milkweed.

Milkweed tussock moth caterpillars on common milkweed.

My first penstemon digitalis sighting in the Smolenski prairie! I missed the flowering stage this summer.

My first penstemon digitalis sighting in the Smolenski prairie! I missed the flowering stage this summer.

Bumble bees and rosinweed.

Bumble bees and rosinweed.

Blue vervain

Blue vervain

More photos from this evening's hike around the Smolenski Park prairie restoration.

#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants #wisconsin

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More photos from yesterday's prairie hike.

#prairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants #hiking

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Indiangrass

Indiangrass

Sweet black-eyed susan (rudbeckia subtomentosa)

Sweet black-eyed susan (rudbeckia subtomentosa)

Rosinweed, bumbles bees, and soldier beetles.

Rosinweed, bumbles bees, and soldier beetles.

Big bluestem and indiangrass

Big bluestem and indiangrass

I picked a good evening to hike the Smolenski Park prairie restoration. Trails were freshly mowed!

#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants

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A lot more yellow in the Smolenski park prairie restoration compared to a week ago.

#nativeplants #prairie #prairierestoration

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Asclepias tuberosa

Asclepias tuberosa

Monarda fistulosa

Monarda fistulosa

ambush bug on rudbeckia hirta

ambush bug on rudbeckia hirta

Three widow skimmers. There were dozens, all aligned in the same direction with the sun.

Three widow skimmers. There were dozens, all aligned in the same direction with the sun.

One more round of photos from yesterday's hike around the Smolenski park prairie restoration.

#prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #prairie #nativeplants

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More photos from today's hike around the Smolenski park prairie restoration.

#nativeplants #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie

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Lots of monarchs in the Smolenski Park prairie restoration this evening! You love to see it!

#nativeplants #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #butterflies 🦋

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Ohio spiderwort

Ohio spiderwort

Wild white indigo

Wild white indigo

Pale purple coneflower

Pale purple coneflower

Purple prairie clover

Purple prairie clover

Fun morning hiking around the Smolenski park prairie restoration. I found six plant species I had yet to find there!

#prairie #prairierestoration

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In collaboration with South Sound Bird Alliance, we have been monitoring the presence of western bluebirds on our prairie for several years. So far this season, a bluebird pair has nested in one of the wooden nest boxes & are currently feeding five young that will fledge any day! #prairierestoration

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and are home to a multitude of creatures we'd not had here, before. It's wondrous.

If you have the chance to visit a tallgrass prairie preserve, take it, it's a magical place.

#PrairieRestoration #TallgrassPrairie

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💚 #PrairieRestoration

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Columbine
#flowers #prairierestoration
#beautyeverywhere

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