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Describes the climate, soil, seasons, plants, and animals of the North American prairie and the ways in which the plants and animals depend on each other and their environment to survive.

A group of almost two dozen land managers, landowners, state and federal agency representatives, and scientists came together to develop a scientific/technical assessment of the conservation needs for the Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion. The Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion encompasses approximately 56 million acres and stretches across all of eastern Colorado, portions of southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and Nebraska, the Panhandles...

Simple text and photographs introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics of prairies.

"A look at a common food chain on a North American prairie, introducing the bluestem grass that starts the chain, the badger that sits atop the chain, and various animals in between"--

In essays boh friendly and elegant, each named for a prairie denizen that has touched her, the author catches the essence of the High Plains like so many shimmering butterflies held long enough to share, then released to that everstretching sky.

"Under glowing morning sun and silvery winter moon, from speckled frogs croaking in spring to summer fields painted with fireweed, this meditative lullaby introduces little ones to the plants and animals of the Prairies and the Plains"--

Examines the prairie as an ecological niche and describes the plant and animal life supported there.

"A Chanticleer Press edition."

A simple introduction to plains.