Restoring the tallgrass prairie an illustrated manual for Iowa and the upper Midwest - Shirley, Shirley (University of Iowa Press, 1994)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index
Iowa is the only state that lies entirely within the natural region of the tallgrass prairie. Early documents indicate that 95 percent of the state & mdash;close to 30 million acres & mdash;was covered by prairie vegetation at the time of Euro-American settlement. By 1930 the prairie sod had been almost totally converted to cropland; only about 30,000 acres of the original & ldquo;great green sea & rdquo; remained. Now, in this gracefully illustrated manual, Shirley Shirley has created a step-by-step guide to reconstructing the natural landscape of Iowa and the Upper Midwest. Chapters on planning, ob
Preface; Acknowledgments; I. History, Planning, and Planting; 1. Leaders in the History of the Tallgrass Prairie; 2. Planning Your Site; 3. Obtaining and Selecting Plants and Seeds; 4. Starting Seeds Indoors; 5. Preparing the Site for Planting; 6. Planting; 7. Maintenance; II. Prairie Species; 8. Wildflowers; 9. Grasses; Glossary; Pictorial Glossary; Order of Blooming; Butterfly Habitats; Family Characteristics; Sources for Seeds, Plants, and Equipment; Organizations Promoting Restoration; Bibliography; Index