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Document Type

Research

Abstract

The primeval prairie of Iowa is fast vanishing. This region where grass grew tall and prairie fires yearly swept over expanses bounded by the horizon or broken here and there by zones of forest along the streams, man, one of the most important of ecological forces, has selected for his permanent habitat. The prairie of former years now lingers in small patches bounded by wire fences and known as hay fields; or where the less ambitious farmer has failed to insert an arterial system of tile, occasional sloughs and swamps furnish homes for hosts of sturdy cattails, slim reeds, plumy grasses and their associates growing with all the glory of former generations. Several of these reserved prairie patches within a radius of a mile show representative growth including a range of characteristic species considerable for such an area. The gradual changes through a period of thirty years have been noted by one observer but only in the last ten years have specific notes been made.

Publication Date

1918

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

25

Issue

1

First Page

369

Last Page

389

Copyright

©1918 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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