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Wild at the Museum

Objective:
Inform the public about their habitat: grasslands. (Information on prairie ecology and
specific plants and animals of the area.)
Provide an example of urban stewardship for both individuals and cities to follow

Organization (some ideas)


History of the land:
What would the original habitat have been?

Washington Irving
Crosstimbers expedition
WWII
Increasing urbanization

Research - use
Pemsteomon Prairie
Inventories
Bluebirds
Mammals
Stewardship
Classes

Ecology: Grasslands

Predation, herbivory, parasitism: galardia

Mutualism Pollination Commensalisms


Dispersal Systems

Food webs

Group selection

Diversity gradients?

Native / Introduced specie

Succession
Stories
The prairie glacier-much of process of prairie life go on underground
Prairie column
Soil to sky - weather
Neo-tropical migrants

Elements
Plexi grown grass examples

Flowers:
Galardia, indian paintbrush

Grasses: specimens
Big bluestem
Switch Grass
Indian Grass
Little Bluestem
Buffalo grass
Gramma grass
Side oats

Arranged west to east in terms of height

Birds and bird nests


Scissortail
Bluebirds
Bluebird houses
Bird house cam- bluebirds

Swallows and flight school

Hawk pellets

Mississippi kites
Nest
Taxidermy
Urban problems

Photos of backyard, all seasons, all animals, taken by staff and volunteers
Submitted on disc?
Gary’s motion-stop camera to be set up this summer?
Mounts
Coyote
Mississippi Kite
Nest with meal remains
Fox if we can get it
Cotton Rat
White-footed mouse
Bluebird
Sparrows
Wrens
Squirrel

Focus on cotton rat (taxidermy specimen?)


Tunnels in the grass

Cotton Rat Maze


Larger than life scale photos (so that you see the world like a cotton rat
Run through the mazes

Squirrel
Squirrel feeding station
Sequence of squirrel chewed pinecones
Pinecones and seeds
Squirrel leaf nest

Invertebrates
Earthworms, nematoads? Microscope?

Box turtles or snakes?

Your Backyard Habitat (suggestions for people to copy)


Backyard with brush pile, feeder, water source, sign
Native grasses, food plants

Problems: HIPPO
Habitat loss, Introduced species, Population, Pollution, Overconsumption
Invasive Species – why bad, habitats the encourage them

Issues with Urban Wildlife-


raccoons in the garbage
Dive-bombing birds
Cartoon strips with message
Blank ending strip…do they kill the kites?

Road kill interactive


Please brake for me
Roadkill interactive game

End Message:
Wild spaces = improve quality of life, richness of life
You can be a steward for wild spaces

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