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short-eared owls
It survived in that grassy landscape by hunting from a ... -like flight. Restoration of large areas of prairie habitat can help the short-eared owl. Prairie Ridge State Natural Area in Jasper county ... spending the winter in Illinois. Nesting Behavior: On the ground in wet prairie among tall grasses and reeds. They lay 4-8 eggs. ...
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West Eugene Wetlands Project -- Memo 2
Willamette Valley's native wet prairie. By the end of FY 95, the West Eugene Wetlands Program's partners will have ... . One of the few areas left in the Willamette Valley with significant examples of native wet prairie, the West Eugene lands provide critical habitat for a number of rare and endangered plant ...
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All Wet in Oregon
Conservancy, September/October 1993 ALL WET IN OREGON Steve Gordon trudges through watery mud meandering through hummocks ... walks part of a 13,000-acre remnant of western Oregon prairie that covered perhaps 360,000 acres when settlers arrived in the ... identified the site as the best remaining piece of the Willamette Valley wet prairie--an important habitat for rare species that has been reduced to ...
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Great River Greening | Natural Plant Communities
Prairie Extremely Rich Fen Northern Mixed Cattail Marsh Northern Bulrush-Spikerush Marsh Southern Wet Prairie Southern Dry Prairie, Dry Sand-Gravel Prairie (Southern) Type Southern Dry Prairie, Dry Bedrock Bluff Prairie (Southern) Type Southern Dry Prairie, Dry Barrens Prairie ...
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Earthquakess and Life -- The Untold Story
(Odocoileus virginianus seminolus) were studied in the wet prairie of Everglades National Park (ENP) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BCNP) before and after the ...
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Prairie Fringed Orchids ESA
Oklahoma (Bowles and Duxbury 1986). This species is also found on the lower slopes of wet prairie swales in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Manitoba (Smith, Bowles, Catling pers. comm.). Habitats include ... withstand some disturbance. Case (1964) observed plants seeding into drainage ditches in a former wet prairie site. Plants of P. leucophaea have been found in abandoned farmland, and one population ...
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EEK! - What is a Prairie?
Wet Prairie: Lots of water, deep clay silt loam or peat soil, poor drainage. Marsh milkweed and prairie cordgrass are two species of plants common to the wet prairie. Mesic Prairie: Some ... some of the many other plants and animals that live in the prairie. --Information compiled from A Pocket Prairie Guide, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Plant Species Composition of Wisconsin ...
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Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation: Prairie management and restoration
Midwest, which can grow to heights of seven feet. Within the tall grass prairie there are three broad types of prairie - dry, mesic, and wet. In a wet prairie you might find big bluestem or compass plant while in the dry prairie ...
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turkey, bobwhite, pheasant, prairie chicken and rails
For some reason, they are almost absent from southern Illinois. greater prairie chicken When European settlers first arrived, greater prairie chickens probably numbered in the millions. Today, only a small population of ... Virginia Rails Soras are the most numerous of the rails found in Illinois marshes and wet habitats. In summer, they are most often found in northern Illinois, with fewer choosing ...
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Prairie Elementary
Prairie Level: Elementary School Introduction Prairies (the French word for meadow) are landscapes truly dominated by grasses. They arise where the climate is too dry to support forests yet too wet to ... as a rider on horseback! In between was the mixed-grass prairie, with shortgrasses on the dry patches, tallgrasses on the wet ones, and mid-sized species throughout. Prairies are a central ...
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