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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
Washington Irving
Crosstimbers expedition
WWII
Increasing urbanization
Research - use
Pemsteomon Prairie
Inventories
Bluebirds
Mammals
Stewardship
Classes
Ecology: Grasslands
Food webs
Group selection
Diversity gradients?
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
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
Squirrel
Squirrel feeding station
Sequence of squirrel chewed pinecones
Pinecones and seeds
Squirrel leaf nest
Invertebrates
Earthworms, nematoads? Microscope?
Problems: HIPPO
Habitat loss, Introduced species, Population, Pollution, Overconsumption
Invasive Species – why bad, habitats the encourage them
End Message:
Wild spaces = improve quality of life, richness of life
You can be a steward for wild spaces