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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky: Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis

Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky: Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis

Jones, Stephen R.

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral Nature

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1496230272
ISBN13: 9781496230270
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Apr 1 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the 2023 Nebraska Book Award

In the Nebraska Sandhills, ranchers on horseback and in pickup trucks share the range with pronghorn antelope, burrowing owls, and long-billed curlews. The native grasses grow greener as the cattle grow fatter. Throughout the region, river otters and mink swim in streams nourished by springs bubbling up from the High Plains (Ogallala) aquifer. Over years of close observation, Stephen R. Jones has gotten to know the Nebraska Sandhills--the twenty-thousand-square-mile expanse of stunning prairie and thriving wetlands. He has felt the warm breath of a white-tailed doe guarding her spotted fawn, learned to communicate with a family of long-eared owls, and developed an improbable hiking relationship with a wild turkey. He has documented a breeding bird population that is growing more diverse and witnessed the long-awaited return of nesting trumpeter swans.

These personal stories, accompanied by words of insight from Native American leaders, Sandhills ranchers, and grassland ecologists, help us envision a quiet relationship with the natural world.

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