Prairies

interpreters and conservation educator. Midewin has two full-time volunteer coordinators and every Thursday is a volunteer restoration workday. There are also a summer crew and internship available. Cattle is used for grazing to enhance habitat for birds that need different highs of grasses. Challenges present in Midewin are altered hydrology and topography by breaking the drain tile in former agricultural crops, cleanup of the army infrastructure, and invasive species. Midewin has a horticulture building for seed production. Seeds are also wild collected from different allowed specific areas. Seed purchase is done by 6 vendors in four states. Midewin currently does not have any plant to fight against the climate change; the goal is to have prairies as healthy as possible to be resilient. Seeding 8 pound per acres which 4.2 pounds per acre are gramineae and 3.2 pound per acre of forbs. The biodiversity is high with more than 90% of the species planted are represented. Monitoring most of the grassland bird, but they also try to monitor insects. Midewin monitoring programs include birds, frogs, butterflies, and streams. Midewin wants to have a fully functional prairie with the reintroduction of missing animals. Besides prairie restoration, Midewin has a few wetland restoration project thanks to Wetland banking that helped funding those projects. Critique: Midewin has enough land to start doing a quality restoration project. Midewin was the only restoration project that had a…

Saving the black footed ferret It was almost 8 am and John I were getting ready for our trip to Grass lands National Park. John is one of my best friends we both graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree on wild life. In the excitement of our trip we couldn’t sleep all night and now we were running late Due to getting up late. I was really excited because I had been studying the black footed ferret for a years now. And I was getting the chance to see it in person now for the first…

TPCASTT Analysis 1. The title, Editing the Prairies, can provoke many feelings in a reader. For instance, a reader who lives in the prairies may wonder what editing needs to be done to their great home. A person living on the prairies knows the wonders of the lands: from the land’s beautiful sunsets, to the hard work their ancestors performed to build the prairies into what they are today. A reader may think there is nothing to edit about the prairies, for in its entirety, it is perfect and in…

Editing the Prairies 1. According to the speaker, the prairies have many problems, such as its fences, skies, and flat landscape. The speaking states the land is “too long”, hinting to its flat landscape, that gives the impression that the fields go on forever. As well, the speaker said how the fences are disruptive to the flow of nature. This insinuates that the land looks untouched and natural, until the fences break the facade and show sign of human contamination. Lastly, the speaker…

The definition of prairies is “prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and scrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type. “The prairie animals are the American toad, badger, black-footed ferret, bison, black-tailed jack rabbit, bumble bee, burrowing owl, California condor, carrion beetle, common snipe, coyotes, deer,…

Life on the Northwestern prairies was not easy for the settlers and their families. There were many difficulties to overcome, from living in small poorly built houses that are miles away from one other, to the harshness of the winters and the differences in nationalities. There were empty and abandoned tracts in between some of them due to the fact that some of the settlers moved on leaving the land to be claimed by mortgage companies and Eastern spectators. Some of the empty tracts belonged to…

William Cullen Bryant's poem, “The Prairies,” expresses the beauty he first encounters of America's prairies and contrasts the beautiful and abundant image of an alive nature; “And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned/ The Prairies. I behold them for the first,” with the grim inevitability of death within the prairie. But from what death takes nature always gives back even when man has made it difficult to continue (495-497). Through juxtaposed images of life and death; Bryant is able to…

Two main kinds of modern realism explored in Canada are that which is rural and said to be pioneered by Grove, and that which is urban and claimed to be pioneered by Callaghan. That being said, Sime is a clear contender for pioneering urban realism, because she was practicing it before Callaghan in 1919. The Short story, “Munitions!”, focuses on urban lifestyle, particularly for women, during World War I. This type of realism is largely in contrast with that of Laurence’s and Ross’ works which…

There was a lot of factors that influenced settlement in Canada, like the resources in the area, if the land was fertile in the area, or the structure of the land. People really needed to make a big decision where to settle because money was scarce for most people and settling down was hard. The physical environment was the most influential factor in settlement for English settlers. The resources in the area influenced settlement a lot. If there was say coal, gold, or other valuable minerals…

In the novel, Giants in the Earth, Rölvaag goes to great lengths to portray the total experience of what life was like for those daring enough to settle it and start over again in the unknown and unexplored regions of the great American prairies. He writes so that the reader can feel just how vast and open the land is as well as the (hardship) harshness of frontier life and the destructive effects it had on the settlers—both the strong and the weak. It is no surprise that isolation, loneliness,…