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Photo of the Week – March 28, 2019
I photographed flowers this week! Ok, they were just flowers on the little speedwell plant (Veronica polita) that grows as a weed in our yard, but still. Flowers! My photography brain muscles were...
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Photo of the Week – March 1, 2019
The snow on the ground is slowing down some of our plans for March, but I do appreciate the opportunity to do some more winter photography. It’s also nice to have snow around as a way to gauge the...
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Prairie Word of the Day – Phenology
Hello, and welcome to the fifth edition of the popular series, “Prairie Word of the Day.” This is the series that has previously brought you such inspiring words/phrases as Tiller, Habitat...
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Photo of the Week – January 4, 2019
I’ve taken a lot of bison photos over the years. My frequent trips to the Niobrara Valley Preserve have given me extraordinary access to bison in an expansive and gorgeous landscape – something I’m...
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Best of 2018 – Part 1
Every December, I post some my favorite photos and writings from the year. This year, I was either particularly prolific or particularly bad at narrowing things down. Regardless, I decided to split...
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Crab Spider Tent
A crab spider and silk webbing at our family last weekend. A few of us took a short trip out to our family prairie last weekend. My daughter was back from college for the weekend and wanted to see...
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Olivia and the Whistle-Pig
This post was written and illustrated by Olivia Schouten, one of our Hubbard Fellows. Olivia is an excellent scientist and land manager, as well as a great writer. In this post, she shares a recent...
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Photo of the Week – October 5, 2018
Bison are pretty tough. At our Niobrara Valley Preserve, and at many other sites in the upper Great Plains, bison make it through the winter without any supplementary feed. They just eat cured...
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Photo of the Week – September 21, 2018
I spent much of this week in northern Nebraska, attending various events and staying at the Niobrara Valley Preserve. It rained much of the time, but I caught a break in the clouds Monday evening and...
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Choosing Your Destination Before You Choose Your Mode of Transport
Last week, I attended a science and stewardship conference of The Nature Conservancy in Madison, Wisconsin. It was an inspiring and thought-provoking week. There were a lot of topics that will...
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Photo of the Week – September 13, 2018
Hello from Wisconsin! I’m spending this week in Madison, Wisconsin with about 250 colleagues at a conference for scientists, land managers, and other conservation staff of The Nature Conservancy....
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Photo of the Week – August 31, 2018
Earlier this week, we spent a few days collecting data at the Niobrara Valley Preserve. It was a quick trip up and back, but we still managed to see quite a bit of wildlife, including mule deer,...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog – Olivia Contemplates Poop
This post is by Olivia Schouten, one of this year’s Hubbard Fellows. In this post, she writes about the importance of bison and cattle dung in prairie ecosystems – a topic you might not think much...
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Photo of the Week – June 29, 2018
We spent a productive week at the Niobrara Valley Preserve this week, collecting a mountain of data. Five of us spent our days scrambling across the Sandhills, counting flowering plants, quantifying...
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Photo of the Week – June 9, 2018
This week’s featured photos include three small creatures. One is a beetle (I have no idea which kind) that was barely visible to my naked eye. A second is a nymph of a praying mantis – probably a...
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Photo of the Week – May 18, 2018
Look everyone – bison calves! I don’t really have anything particularly pithy or interesting to say about bison calves… I just felt like posting some photos of them. These are three of my favorites,...
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Hubbard Fellowship Post – Mixed-Up Flickers
This post is written by Olivia Schouten, one of our Hubbard Conservation Fellows. Olivia hails from Pella, Iowa, and has strong experience in prairie ecology. Look for more posts from her, as well as...
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Photo of the Week – April 13, 2018
Spring is here, but only for a few more hours. We saw some nice green-up this week, with temperatures in the mid to upper 70’s. Tonight, we’re supposed to get 5-7 inches of snow along the Platte...
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Photo of the Week – March 22, 2018
It’s always inspiring to hang out with other conservation photographers, especially when they’re really good at what they do. As I mentioned in my last post, I recently spent an early morning in one...
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When Is A Whooping Crane Not A Whooping Crane?
Along the Central Platte River in Nebraska, there is an annual congregation of hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes during the month of March. For about two decades or so, there has also been a...
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