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Saving Nebraska’s Oak Woodlands… by Burning Them
Last week, I helped arrange a tour of recently-burned oak woodlands at Indian Cave State Park, an eastern Nebraska site owned and managed by Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Indian Cave State Park...
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A Weekend Walk in the Woods
We visited family in eastern Nebraska this weekend. My in-laws have an oak woodland that I’ve become familiar with over the years, and I was glad to have a little time to wander through it. Because...
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Blowing Against the Wind?
As I mentioned last week, I recently spent a couple days helping our land manager, Nelson Winkel, pull garlic mustard at our Rulo Bluffs Preserve in southeast Nebraska. The invasive species has just...
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Photo of the Week – May 23, 2013
Many thanks for all the great feedback on my garlic mustard post earlier this week. If there’s one big lesson from all the responses and suggestions I got via blog comments and emails, it’s that there...
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2014 Woodland Burning at the Rulo Bluffs Preserve
I made a trip down to our Rulo Bluffs Preserve last week. I wanted to get down and see the results of the prescribed fire we conducted earlier this spring. We’re in a restoration mode at the site,...
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Photo of the Week – May 21, 2015
We were working at our Rulo Bluffs Preserve this week. While Nelson was shredding brush on the ridge tops, I was pulling garlic mustard and killing small trees. I also found time to take a few...
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A Day in the Bluffs
We spent a long day at our Rulo Bluffs property last week. The site is at the very southeast corner of Nebraska, and includes about 450 acres of mostly oak/hickory woodland with prairie and savanna...
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