brb, gonna build ai goggles that show you what the #prairie would’ve looked like.
06.03.2026 19:47
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brb, gonna build ai goggles that show you what the #prairie would’ve looked like.
First burn of the year for me. I’ve been trying to burn this river bank every year. Ive noticed more forbs and sedges each year and less smooth brome. I want to try clethodim this year to target the brome even further and allow the native sedges more opportunity to expand.
Days are longer. Temps above freezing. Less clouds. More sun. Seed. Life. More.
Sometimes, without warning, I’ll tell someone to plant bur oaks.
This was an interesting read.
theprairieenthusiasts.org/karrikins-an...
Those colors
Happy Solstice!
New study: backyard mosquito sprays lead to insecticide levels high enough to kill pollinators, and sprays travel easily into neighboring yards. stacksjournal.org/article/ande...
It’s going to be 60 degrees warmer today than two days ago. That’s a lot of degrees.
Great article by @danamilbank.bsky.social on hidden eastern grasslands and the organizations helping to discover, conserve and restore these high-diversity carbon sinks. Gift link, so there should be no paywall.
Mentions www.segrasslands.org,
cliftoninstitute.org, and others.
wapo.st/4pSK2Y2
Boy, retraction is the thing these days. After years of critique, a foundational 25-year old paper on the safety of glyphosate herbicide has been pulled. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2
With the first snowfall of the year happening today, I mowed a last-second fire break in my prairie last night in the dark. This will set me up for an April fire next spring on 1/2 the site. It will be the first fire for the restoration.
Kind of an interesting picture. This is the view out my bedroom window of the northern lights from last night.
WOW wowoweoeo wow
#northernlights
More evidence dispelling the seed bank myth that falsely leads practioners to believe that it's an insurance policy against distruptive disturbances to old-growth communities--disturbances that often deliberately prescribed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Holy smokes, the #northernlights were dancing tonight.
It was a good day to make #prairie today. A good sized one too: 200+ acres. We’ll finish seeding over the next couple days.
I saw that you ID'd one I submitted.
I didn't count, but there were probably 100 or so. On my way to my goal of 1,000 blooming pasque flowers!
Good luck, and I’ll see ya in the spring!
I’ve been moving all the Pasque flowers that I grew in a raised bed on my patio and into my #prairie restoration. They did excellent this year - biggest ones I’ve grown yet. Some have a shot at flowering in year 2.
A graph showing how prairie plant responses to seeding density treatments vary along a soil water holding capacity gradient
New paper led by former post-bac researcher Isabelle Turner, with @chriscatano.bsky.social:
Seeding density alters the role of soil moisture in structuring plant abundance during prairie restoration
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And here’s one in landscape.
Few pics of the #moon from last night.
I remember when 60° used to be the day time high in October. Now, it’s the overnight low temp. 👀
Hill’s thistle (Cirsium pumilum var. hillii), one of our native thistles, found blooming on a native prairie hillside today. Spectacular plant.
The algorithm that controls my ‘thumbprint’ radio on pandora should be studied. Soooo good.
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Pretty sweet #prairie hill full of dotted blazing star (Liatris punctata).
I’ve been picking #prairie seed a lot lately. Today, I filled up this cup with downy gentian seed pods.
Have you looked at adding native fungi/microbes to existing restorations or remnants that are invaded by non-native species? As a way to flip the site in favor of native plants?
