Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula written by Gary Meszaros and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous forest region and includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, southeastern Wisconsin, and Ohio. With text by coauthors Gary Meszaros and Guy L. Denny and striking photographs by Meszaros, The Prairie Peninsula examines the many prairie types, floristic composition, and animals that are part of this ecosystem. It took only 50 years for 150 million acres of tallgrass prairie to disappear under the steel plow, transforming the Prairie Peninsula into fields of corn and wheat. Today, only a few thousand acres of this endangered ecosystem remain in small parcels, some just a few acres each. The second half of the 19th century brought the mass slaughter of prairie wildlife. By 1900, like the prairie they roamed, the plains bison, gray wolf, and eastern elk became extirpated east of the Mississippi River. The Prairie Peninsula also tells the story of the early settlers and the hardships they endured. Thousands died of milk sickness and malaria, with prairie fires sending flames 30 feet into the air and stretched across the horizon, destroying everything in their path. Today, many of these pioneers lie buried in cemeteries comprising prairie remnants, fragments of the primeval land they tried to tame. The authors investigate these and other surviving prairie remnants and current efforts to save these traces of original North American grassland. Both Gary Meszaros and Guy L. Denny have traveled extensively throughout the Midwest, studying the animal and floristic composition of original prairie remnants.

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula written by James Allison Brown and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula written by Edgar Nelson Transeau and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula written by James Allison Brown and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Origin and Development of the Concept of the Prairie Peninsula written by Ronald L. Stuckey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tall Grass Prairie Peninsula written by James P. Fay and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tall grass prairie peninsula is Illinois, parts of northeastern Indiana, and the Darby Plains prairies of central Ohio. This area has been a hub of great innovation. One factor is that the peninsula is at the center of a vast east-west system of rivers. Another is that the area is ecologically and culturally diverse. This text discusses the area; the history, ecologies, and people, and some of the social and cultural innovations that have originated there.

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula in the shadow of Transea written by Ohio State University and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prairie World written by David Francis Costello and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the grassland's history, climate, landscape, ever-changing moods, and survival battles waged by plant and animal inhabitants

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula in the shadow of Transeau written by Ronald L. Stuckey and published by College of Biological Sciences Ohio State University. This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula in the Shadow of Transeau written by Ronald L. Stuckey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula in the shadow of Transeau written by Ohio Biological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula in the shadow of Transea written by Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula in the shadow of Transeau written by Charles M. Oehler and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book At the Tip of the Prairie Peninsula written by John Joseph Mack and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The prairie complexes of the Sandusky Plains represent the tip of the wedge of the Prairie Peninsula. Based on floristic and palynological evidence published to date, the prairie and savannah of the Sandusky Plains likely developed at the same time and due to same regional climatic factors as main body of the Prairie Peninsula; however, local soil, fire, topographic, or hydrologic factors would be been expected to exert greater influences given its far eastern location. The plant communities at Daughmer ordinate strongly by light and soil gradients and Daughmer Savannah and Claridon Prairie are floristically very similar to prairie communities elsewhere in the prairie states and together have a full or nearly full complement of prairie plant communities and prairie plant species. Daughmer Savannah and Claridon Prairie represent a complete, or relatively complete blueprint of the flora and plant communities of the Sandusky Plains. As relatively intact, deep soil savannah and prairie they are some of the rarest habitats in Ohio and throughout the former Prairie Peninsula states.

Download or read book Subsistence Change on the Great Plains Periphery prairie Peninsula A D 700 1100 written by Jeffrey Buechler and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prehistory and Environmental Change Along the Southern Border of the Prairie Peninsula During the Archaic Period written by Walter E. Klippel and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Early Woodland Period Manifestation in the Prairie Peninsula written by Walter E. Klippel and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: