Monthly Archives: December 2012

Lyle Lovett Loves the Tallgrass

In 2001, a documentary film came out titled last stand of the tallgrass prairie (lower case letters are publisher’s choice).  It included an introduction by singer Lyle Lovett, and was a call for the preservation of the Flint Hills in … Continue reading

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“Grass No Good Upside Down”

The Last Prairie – A Sandhills Journal by Stephen R. Jones is a collection of essays that all relate to the Nebraska Sandhills.  Jones is a naturalist, and his essays contain a nice variety of science, from the big, “I lie … Continue reading

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Timing is Everything

The entire history of the Earth is, well, pretty long.  It stretches back some 4.5 billion years to the time when the earth formed in the planetary disk of the young star we would come to know as the sun. … Continue reading

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