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Iowa'S Changing Wildlife - Three Decades Of Gain And Loss

by James J. Dinsmore e Stephen J. Dinsmore

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 Provides an up-to-date, scientifically based summary of changes in the distribution, status, conservation needs, and future prospects of about sixty species of Iowaâ€™s birds and mammals whose populations have increased or decreased in the past three decades.
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To Find A Pasqueflower - A Story Of The Tallgrass Prairie

by Greg Hoch

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 The tallgrass prairie once stretched from Indiana to Kansas to Minnesota. Most of this land is now growing corn and soybeans. In To Find a Pasqueflower, Greg Hoch shows us that the tallgrass prairie is the most endangered ecosystem on the continent, but it's also an ecosystem that people can play an active role in restoring.
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Wildland Sentinel - Field Notes From An Iowa Conservation Officer

by Erika Billerbeck

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Using an introspective personal voice, this narrative nonfiction work weaves stories of Iowa's natural history with a cast of unforgettable characters. Wildland Sentinel touches on what it means to be a woman working in the male-dominated field of conservation law enforcement.
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Hidden Prairie - Photographing Life In One Square Meter

by Chris Helzer

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 Illustrates the beauty and diversity of prairie through an impressive series of photographs, all taken within the same square meter of prairie. During a year-long project, Chris Helzer photographed 113 plant and animal species within a tiny plot, and captured numerous other images that document the splendor of diverse grasslands.
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With Wings Extended - A Leap Into The Wood Duck''S World

by Greg Hoch

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Shows how almost anyone can get involved in conservation and do something for wildlife beyond giving money to conservation organisations. In this fascinating and practical read, Greg Hoch blends historical literature with modern science, and shows how our views of conservation have changed over the last century.
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Twelve Millennia - Archaeology Of The Upper Mississippi River Valley

by Boszhardt Robert F Boszhardt e Theler James L Theler

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 From the end of the ice age to the fur trade era, this book provides an overview of the 12,000-year human past of the Driftless region of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Focusing on ancient peoples and artefacts, it draws upon knowledge of past climate changes and human adaptation.
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Birds Of An Iowa Dooryard

by Althea R. Sherman

34,45€ + 10% CARD

 Written in the early part of this century, Birds of an Iowa Dooryard is full of meticulous and witty observations of species both avian and human.
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Place Of Sense - Essays In Search Of Midwest

by Michael Martone

34,38€ + 10% CARD

 Essays describe life in small towns, farming communities, and suburbs in states from Ohio to North Dakota.
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Secret To Be Burried - Diary Emily Hawley Gillespie

by Judy Nolte Lensink

56,91€ + 10% CARD

 <div> <p>The sound of nineteenth-century women, once thought lost to us, is alive because ordinary women like Emily Hawley Gillespie gave voice to their thoughts in diaries. This condensed version of the 2,500-page journals of Emily Gillespie, faithfully written from 1858 to 1888, is a detailed account of rural Iowa life. More than this, it contains the reflections of a woman who dreamed of being a painter and writer and instead became a wife and a mother, a woman whose radical convictions were recorded in her diary, while publicly she conformed to the prescribed life of a Victorian pioneer woman. Through Emily''s journals, readers are offered immediate and unmodified contact with settlers in Iowa one hundred years ago. A wealth of facts are included—what produce she harvested and preserved from her garden, how her husband tended his fields and what he raised, the challenges and rewards of family life.</p> <p>Judy Lensink''s skillful analysis shows the larger patterns in Emily Gillespie''s life and provides keys that unlock the diary''s secrets. Emily''s life is revealed as a youth full of promise fading into middle and declining years of lost dreams and eventual tragedy, which caused her to write, "I have written <i>many</i> things in my journal, but the worst is a secret to be burried when I shall cease to be."</p> </div>
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Nineteenth Century Home Architecture Of Iowa City - A Silver Anniversary Edition

by Margaret N. Keyes

21,20€ + 10% CARD

 Newly expanded with over twenty new houses and twenty-five new photographs—plus a map that allows readers to explore Iowa City''s historic neighborhoods! This silver anniversary edition of Margaret Keyes'' 1967 classic will be required reading for all those fascinated by local history and by the development of architectural styles in the Midwest and for all those devoted to restoring and preserving historic houses.
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Ecology And Management Of Prairies In The Central United States

by Chris Helzer

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Educates prairie owners and managers about grassland ecology and gives them guidelines for keeping prairies diverse, vigorous, and viable. This title presents the tools necessary to ensure that grasslands are managed in the purposeful ways essential to the continued health and survival of prairie communities.
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Booming From The Mists Of Nowhere - The Story Of The Greater Prairie-Chicken

by Greg Hoch

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 For ten months of the year, the prairiechicken's drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. There's nothing else like it, and it is perilously close to being lost. In this book, ecologist Greg Hoch shows that we can ensure that this iconic bird flourishes once again.
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Of Wilderness And Wolves

by Paul L. Errington

27,83€ + 10% CARD

 Offers a celebration of a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Paul L. Errington melds his expertise in wildlife biology with his love for natural beauty to create a visionary and often moving reexamination of humanity's relationship with these magnificent and frequently maligned animals.
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Art Quilts The Midwest

by Linzee Kull Mccray

33,06€ + 10% CARD

 <div>A milestone in perception occurred in 1971, when the Whitney Museum of American Art displayed quilts in a museum setting: <i>Abstract Design in American Quilts</i> bestowed institutional recognition of the artistry inherent in these humble textiles. In subsequent decades, quilting’s popularity exploded. Some who took up quilting created pieced quilts that honored traditional patterns, symmetry, and repetition. But others saw the potential for pushing beyond patchwork, giving birth to the art quilt. Today, adherents from both art and quilting backgrounds incorporate storytelling, digital images, nonfabric materials, asymmetry, and three dimensions—in short, anything goes in the world of art quilting, as long as the result is stitched, layered, and not primarily functional.<br> <br> As a writer covering textiles, art, and craft, Linzee Kull McCray wondered just how deeply fiber artists were influenced by their surroundings. Focusing on midwestern art quilters in particular, she put out a call for entries and nearly 100 artists responded; they were free to define those aspects of midwesterness that most affected their work. The artists selected for inclusion in this book embrace the Midwest’s climate, land, people, and culture, and if they don’t always embrace it wholeheartedly, then they use their art to react to it. The proof can be seen in the varied, powerful quilts in this energizing book.<br> <br> Enlivened by the Midwest’s landscapes and seasons, Sally Bowker paints her fabrics with acrylics, creating marks and meaning with layers of hand stitching and appliqued bits of fabric. Shin-hee Chin uses sketchlike stitching for its ability to penetrate fabric and create depth; living in the Midwest helps her stay balanced between eastern philosophy and western culture. The metals and mesh that Diane Núñez incorporates into her quilts connect to her days as a jeweler as well as to the topography of her home state of Michigan. Pat Owoc prepares papers with disperse dyes, then selects from as many as 150 to create her fabrics; her art-quilt series honors midwestern pioneers. Martha Warshaw photographs old fabrics, tweaks the images in Photoshop, and prints the results for her pieces, which connect her to the legacy of quilting in past generations.<br> <br> The Midwest has always had strong textile communities. Now the twenty artists featured in this beautifully illustrated book have created a new community of original art forms that bring new life to an old tradition.<br> <br> The Artists<br> Marilyn Ampe, St. Paul, Minnesota<br> Gail Baar, Buffalo Grove, Illinois<br> Sally Bowker, Cornucopia, Wisconsin<br> Peggy Brown, Nashville, Indiana<br> Shelly Burge, Lincoln, Nebraska<br> Shin-hee Chin, McPherson, Kansas<br> Sandra Palmer Ciolino, Cincinnati, Ohio<br> Jacquelyn Gering, Chicago, Illinois<br> Kate Gorman, Westerville, Ohio<br> Donna Katz, Chicago, Illinois<br> Beth Markel, Rochester Hills, Michigan<br> Diane Núñez, Southfield, Michigan<br> Pat Owoc, St. Louis, Missouri<br> BJ Parady, Batavia, Illinois<br> Bonnie Peterson, Houghton, Michigan<br> Luanne Rimel, St. Louis, Missouri<br> Barbara Schneider, Woodstock, Illinois<br> Susan Shie, Wooster, Ohio<br> Martha Warshaw, Cincinnati, Ohio<br> Erick Wolfmeyer, Iowa City, Iowa</div>
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Tallgrass Prairie Reader

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, is now a tiny remnant of its former expanse. As a literary landscape, with much of the American environmental imagination focused on a mainstream notion of more spectacular examples of wild beauty, tallgrass is even more neglected. Prairie author and advocate John T. Price wondered what it would take to restore tallgrass prairie to its rightful place at the center of our collective identity.The answer to that question is his Tallgrass Prairie Reader, a first-of-its-kind collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion. Focusing on autobiographical nonfiction in a wide variety of forms, voices, and approaches-including adventure narrative, spiritual reflection, childhood memoir, Native American perspectives, literary natural history, humor, travel writing and reportage-he honors the ecological diversity of tallgrass itself and provides a range of models for nature writers and students.The chronological arrangement allows readers to experience tallgrass through the eyes and imaginations of forty-two authors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Writings by very early explorers are followed by works of nineteenth-century authors that reflect the fear, awe, reverence, and thrill of adventure rampant at the time. After 1900, following the destruction of the majority of tallgrass, much of the writing became nostalgic, elegiac, and mythic. A new environmental consciousness asserted itself midcentury, as personal responses to tallgrass were increasingly influenced by larger ecological perspectives. Preservation and restoration-informed by hard science-emerged as major themes. Early twenty-first-century writings demonstrate an awareness of tallgrass environmental history and the need for citizens, including writers, to remember and to help save our once magnificent prairies.
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Year Of Iowa Nature - Discovering Where We Live

by Carl Kurtz

36,44€ + 10% CARD

 Previously published as: Iowa's wild places: an exploration / with Carl Kurtz. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1996.
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Gardening The Amana Way

by Lawrence L. Rettig

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 <div> <div>Gardening in Iowa’s Amana Colonies is the culmination of techniques that stretch back several centuries to central Europe, when adherents to a new faith called the Community of True Inspiration formed their own self-reliant communities. As a child of parents who were part of the communal life of the Amana Society, Larry Rettig pays homage to the Amana gardening tradition and extends it into the twenty-first century.</div> <div><br> Each of the seven villages in Amana relied on the food prepared in its communal kitchens, and each kitchen depended on its communal garden for most of the dishes served (the kitchens in Rettig’s hometown produced more than four hundred gallons of sauerkraut in 1900). Rettig begins by describing the evolution of communal gardening in old Amana, focusing especially on planting, harvesting, and storing vegetables from asparagus to egg lettuce to turnips. With the passing of the old order in 1932, the number of the society’s large vegetable gardens and orchards dwindled, but Larry Rettig and his wife, Wilma, still grow some of the colonies’ heirloom varieties in their fourth-generation South Amana vegetable garden. In 1980 they founded a seed bank to preserve them for future generations.</div> <div><br> Rettig’s chapters on modern vegetable and flower gardening in today’s Amana Colonies showcase his Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens, now listed with the Smithsonian in its Archives of American Gardens. Old intermingles with new across his gardens: heirloom lettuce keeps company with the latest cucumber variety, a hundred-year-old rose arches over the newest daylilies and heucheras, and ancient grapevines intertwine with newly planted wisteria, all adding up to a rich array of colorful plantings.</div> <div><br> Rettig extends his gardening advice into the kitchen and workroom. He shares family recipes for any number of traditional dishes, including radish salad, dumpling soup, Amana pickled ham, apple bread, eleven-minute meat loaf, and strawberry rhubarb pie. Moving into the workroom, he shows us how to make hammered botanical prints, Della Robbia centerpieces, holiday wreaths, a gnome home, and a waterless fountain. Touring his gardens, with their historic and unusual plants, will make gardeners everywhere want to reproduce the groupings and varieties that surround Larry and Wilma Rettig’s 1900 red brick house.</div> </div>
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Between Urban And Wild - Reflections From Colorado

by Andrea M. Jones

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 In her calm, carefully reasoned perspective on place, Andrea Jones focuses on the familiar details of country life balanced by the larger responsibilities that come with living outside an urban boundary. Neither an environmental manifesto nor a prodevelopment defense, Between Urban and Wild operates partly on a practical level, partly on a naturalist's level.
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Others Had It Worse - Sour Dock, Moonshine, And Hard Times In Davis County, Iowa

by Chris D. Baker e Vetra Melrose Padget Covert

23,19€ + 10% CARD

 <div> <div>In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert had recorded her younger life in rural Iowa between 1920 and 1929. Writing about herself from the ages of four to thirteen, Vetra Covert sent a simple message back to her grandson: "That’s just the way it was. Others had it worse. We got by."</div> <div> </div> <div>Captivated by this glimpse of a woman very different from the more formidable grandmother of his memory, Chris Baker reframed Vetra’s journal to create a narrative of her childhood and a window into rural Iowa life in the 1920s. Transcribing her words into nine chapters that illuminate home, family, neighbors, school, and social life, he has composed a collection of candid, whimsical, sometimes ornery stories that will resonate with anyone who has ever tried to decipher the lives found in old letters and photos.</div> <div> </div> <div>Vetra’s was not a romantic little-house-on-the-prairie childhood. She grew up with seven brothers and sisters (every new baby was "a supprise") in a dilapidated log cabin near a small town now vanished from the Iowa map. Two rooms up, two rooms down, no plumbing, no electricity, holes in the roof and floor so big "you could of throwed a cat through them." Her father was a bootlegger-farmer who measured his corn yield in gallons, not bushels, a moonshiner occasionally harassed by federal agents. Although family stories now present him as a quaint old-timer, the reality of living with him was much starker.</div> <div> </div> <div>In his introduction to Vetra’s recollections, Chris Baker reveals the harsh truths underlying her authentic, uncomplaining account. By honoring her legacy, he discovered a newfound respect for her and for her family’s ability to survive despite the devastating forces of poverty, isolation, and the looming Great Depression. Together he and his grandmother have created an enduring chapter in family history.</div> <br></div>
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Esther'S Town

by Deemer Lee

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 <div> <div>Esther''s Town could be "Any Town, U.S.A.," for the equals of its cast of characters can be found in any small town. And here, as usual, was the town newspaper editor, the observing eye of all the foibles and peccadillos that form any town''s history. Remembering all the years with love and humor, editor Deemer Lee chronicled the forty-four years he gathered and wrote news—forty-one of them as editor and publisher of his town''s newspaper.<br> <br></div> <div>He dug into old records, recalled old times, and talked with old-timers. He illuminated the transition of a town, from Estherville’s pioneer settlement to the busy, active town it is today.<br> <br></div> <div>The excitement and fun begin with a story of bootleggers, Chautauqua meetings, and an accomplished arsonist—who achieves in less than two months the impressive score of burning seven barns and one feed store, with an unsuccessful attempt on the Methodist church. Scandinavians move in, build crude shelters for the first winter, and add their special characteristics to the town. The Irish arrive and stamp their mark on the whole territory. The circus comes to town and entrances everyone with its ancient pageantry. The railroads come through and add a rowdy element to the population. The Depression begins and farms see 11-cent corn, 108-degree heat, and a twister.<br> <br></div> All these events, plus adventures with a massive meteorite and haunting river tragedies, create the drama and flow of small-town life, story by story, in a fascinating revelation of Americana. </div>
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Practical Guide To Prairie Reconstruction - Second Edition

by Carl Kurtz

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 <div>Thirty-five years and many acres after planting his first patch of prairie flowers, Carl Kurtz is considered one of the deans of the great tallgrass prairie revival. <i>The Prairie Enthusiast</i> called the 2001 edition of his book a "readable and understandable introduction to prairie and the general steps in carrying out a reconstruction." Now this second edition reflects his increased experience with reconstructing and restoring prairie grasslands.</div> <div><br> Kurtz has completely revised every chapter of the first edition, from site selection and harvest to soil preparation, seeding, postplanting mowing, burning, and growth and development. He has written new chapters on establishing prairie in old pastureland and on the judicious use of herbicides, including a table that shows particular problem species, the types of herbicides that are most effective at controlling them, and the timing and method of treatment. New photographs illustrate species and steps, and Kurtz has expanded the question-and-answer section and updated the references and the section on midwestern seed sources and services.</div> Tallgrass prairie is critical wildlife habitat and an important element in flood control and stream water treatment. The process of reconstructing and restoring prairie grasslands has made great strides in recent decades. Carl Kurtz’s indispensable, step-by-step guide to creating a diverse and well-established prairie community provides both directions and encouragement for individual landowners as well as land managers working with government agencies and nonprofit organizations that have taken up the task of reconstructing and restoring native grasslands.
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Raptors Of Iowa

by Ehresman Bruce Ehresman, Patterson Rich Patterson, Roosa Dean M Roosa e Stravers Jon W. Stravers

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 This long-awaited collection of James Landenberger's paintings of Iowa birds of prey presents thirty-two full-page, full-color species, from the common turkey vulture to the red-shouldered hawk of Mississippi River woodlands to the little northern saw-whet owl. Four naturalists who have devoted their lives to conserving wilderness habitats and species have written essays to complement the paintings.Thanks to state and federal laws and a shift in public attitude, birds of prey are no longer seen as incarnations of ferocity but as creatures superbly attuned to their lives and surroundings. Although Iowa unfortunately leads the way in the amount of wildlife habitat that has been destroyed, conservation organizations and state agencies have also led the way toward successful raptor restoration projects, among them a roadside nest box program for the American kestrel, a project to restore peregrine falcons to their historic eyries, and a relocation program that should ensure a sustainable population of ospreys. The recent spectacular recovery of the bald eagle, whose nests had vanished from the state for seventy years, is particularly encouraging.There can be no substitute for seeing thousands of broad-winged hawks soaring high overhead during migration, a great horned owl perching in silhouette at dusk, or a Cooper's hawk plunging toward its prey along the roadside. But Jim Landenberger's meticulously detailed paintings go a long way toward conveying the remarkable beauty of the American kestrel and other falcons, the grace of the swallow-tailed kite, the immaculate mystery of the snowy owl and its fellow owls, the glistening head feathers of an adult bald eagle, and the piercing defiance so characteristic of our larger hawks.
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Iowa Lakeside Laboratory - A Century Of Discovering The Nature Of Nature

by Michael J. Lannoo

25,18€ + 10% CARD

 In this remarkable and insightful book, Michael Lannoo sets the story of Lakeside Laboratory, founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa in 1909, within the larger story of the primacy of fieldwork, the emergence of conservation biology, and the ability of field stations to address such growing problems as pollution, disease, habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change."
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Of Men And Marshes

by Paul Errington

29,15€ + 10% CARD

 Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1957.
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