Plains & Prairies
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Wildlife of Nebraska: A Natural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn Wildlife of Nebraska: A Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard surveys the variety and biology of more than six hundred Nebraska species.
Narrative accounts describe the ecology and biology of the state
- Author: Johnsgard, Paul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496220269
- Language: English
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Mootopia: How to Easily Fix Human Health and Heal the Planet
$23.99 Add to cartThis book is for people who want to understand what farm folk have always known. Our soil is a legacy, cows make rain, horses heal the land, fungi are our friends, the sky is alive, and farm kids are
- Author: Sargent, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218877071
- Language: English
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Wild on Purpose: The American Prairie Story and the Art of Thinking Bigger
$23.95 Add to cartIs it possible to make more nature?
In 2001, a small team of ordinary citizens set out on an audacious effort to establish one of the largest wildlife reserves ever created-bigger than Yellowstone and
- Author: Gerrity, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890920348
- Language: English
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Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America
$26.00 Add to cartThe inspirational story of grassland rivers–and the people who paddle and protect them.
The North American grasslands that once covered vast areas of the central United States are now our most endan- Author: Frazier, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 03 2025
- ISBN10: 022683879X
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Sandhills
$34.95 Add to cart“Like a rumpled wool blanket, the Nebraska Sandhills spreads out over twenty thousand square miles of north central Nebraska and is the largest stabilized dune field in the Western Hemisphere. It is a… [more below]
- Author: Norby, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496235835
- Language: English
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A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family
$29.95 Add to cartA Sometimes Paradise is a poignant personal journey into the rugged beauty and hardscrabble challenges of Wyoming ranch life that shaped Mark Miller as a boy and then as a young man.
Against the backdr
- Author: Miller, Mark E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 195486115X
- Language: English
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A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family
$15.95 Add to cartA captivating, unfiltered account of growing up on a ranch, where every decision defines character
A Sometimes Paradise is a poignant personal journey into the rugged beauty and hardscrabble challenges
- Author: Miller, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1954861168
- Language: English
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Ranchlands: From the Land, for the Land
$65.00 Read moreA beautiful photographic collection of life on the open range, capturing what ranching looks like today while honoring the enduring spirit of the American West.
Over the past two decades, Ranchlands (- Author: Phillips III, Duke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 084783087X
- Language: English
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The Wild Horse Effect: Awe, Well-Being, and the Transformative Power of Nature
$29.95 Add to cartCombining stunning imagery with insights from the new science of awe and contemplative practices, The Wild Horse Effect reminds us that stepping away from our modern lives and reconnecting with the n… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Chad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 179722865X
- Language: English
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Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
$32.00 Add to cartA vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster
“This book describes–in loving, living prose–on- Author: Hage, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 593447409
- Language: English
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
$27.99 Add to cartThe Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.
White settlers did learn a few pl
- Author: Kindscher, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 1992
- ISBN10: 0700605274
- Language: English
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The Ecological Buffalo: On the Trail of a Keystone Species
$34.95 Add to cartAn expert on the buffalo tells the history of this keystone species through extensive research and beautiful photographs.
The mere mention of the buffalo instantly brings to mind the vast herds that- Author: Olson, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 09 2022
- ISBN10: 088977871X
- Language: English
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On Common Ground: Learning and Living in the Loess Hills
$24.95 Read moreOn Common Ground is guidebook for a place. An encounter with the spirit of the place and how we can best understand how to best live there.
- Author: Allen, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1948509458
- Language: English
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Prairie: A Natural History of the Heart of North America: Revised Edition
$19.95 Read moreCandace Savage’s acclaimed and beautifully written guide to the ecology of the prairies, now revised and updated.
Praise for the previous edition of Prairie:
“Impelled with its sense of the miraculous- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Savage, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1771645946
- Language: English
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Rescuing Biodiversity: The Protection and Restoration of a North Louisiana Ecosystem
$29.95 Add to cartRestoration ecology is a vital tool to mitigate the crisis caused by the global destruction of biodiversity, one of the most powerful existential threats to future generations. Johnny Armstrong’s Resc
- Author: Armstrong, Johnny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179507
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated guide to the natural habitats and rich diversity of wildlife in the greater Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area
Though the Twin Cities and environs have proven a fine habitat for one p- Author: Moriarty, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905494
- Language: English
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
$29.95 Add to cartIn Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the I… [more below]
- Author: Shay, C. Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496223381
- Language: English
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Great Plains Bison
$17.95 Add to cartA Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska
Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803285779
- Language: English
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Tending Iowa’s Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future
$25.00 Read more2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction – Nature, winner
In the last 200 years, Iowa’s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has pro- Series: Bur Oak Book
- Author: Mutel, Cornelia F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: December 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388739
- Language: English
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Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife
$26.95 Add to cartBack from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America’s most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America’s… [more below]
- Author: Freese, Curtis H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496231325
- Language: English
