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Bringing work home or bringing home to work?
I have to be able to garden in order to maintain my sanity. It is a lot why we bought a house when I started my graduate program at Kansas State. I probably spend as much time gardening as I do on my...
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Garden in the Drought
July (with one day left to go) has been rough on the garden. In Manhattan, KS, the temperature has exceeded 100 F on 19 days and reached or exceeded 105 on 9 days. It has rained just under an inch at...
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Natural Areas Have Intrinsic Value
Cladium mariscoides in a SE Wisconsin calcareous fen Much of the conservation community’s current approach to conservation planning is a commodification of nature. Lands are valued according to laundry...
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Ecotype – Problematic Concept in a Changing World
Iowa is the most altered state in the U.S. Nowhere have natural communities been more thoroughly destroyed. I started thinking about ecotypes when I was in my early twenties collecting seeds on little...
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Alternatives to Boring Midwestern Bluegrass and Fescue Lawns
For most of us, home ownership carries with it the management of at least a small parcel of land, and usually this means maintaining a lawn. For the ambitious, this might also include perennial...
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Born Again
Lewisia rediviva growing in a rocky, volcanic substrate at the Northern Great Basin Experimental Range near Riley, OR. I have been waiting for bitter root (Lewisia redivia) to bloom for weeks now, and...
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Talkin’ About Bed-Free Landscaping with Natives
This links to a presentation that elaborates on a previous post I made about getting rid of your nonsense exotic turf for Oakland Township (Michigan) Parks....
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Botanists are NOT Ruining Prairies
Wait, what?! More than a decade ago Prairie Ecologist asked, “Are botanists ruining prairies?” I’d met the author, worked with him to set up a portion of my dissertation research. I’d come west from...
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Stability Part One: Why I Recommend Frequent Dormant Season Burning
Stability Part One: Why I Recommend Frequent Dormant Season Burning Prairie and Oak Ecosystems Depend on Stability A central organizing concept of my ecological education was that prairie and oak...
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