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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBlowing 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...
View ArticlePhoto 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...
View Article2014 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,...
View ArticlePhoto 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...
View ArticleA 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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