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Prairie Bibliography

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Recommendations

There are many books on Texas, grasslands, and conservation issues. What are the "core" books that someone interested in Texas prairies should own? Below are some of the recommendations from NPAT - books that we feel will inspire you, teach you, and make you think - and rethink.

• The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook
• Prairie Time: A Blackland Portrait
• Last Stand of the Tall Grass Prairie
• Texas Wildflowers
• Gardening with Prairie Plants
• Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region
• Native Texas Gardens: Maximum Beauty, Minimum Upkeep
• Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas

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Artwork

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Books and Booklets

• An Introduction to the Tallgrass Prairies of the Upper Midwest
  80 page booklet by The Prairie Enthusiasts. Send $8.44 (includes postage) to Alice Mirk, Treasurer, The Prairie Enthusiasts, 10052 CTH C, Woodman, WI 53827
• Big Bluestem
  Annick Smith
  Purchase
• Bison Symbol of the American West
  Michael S. Sample
  Falcon Press Publishing Press, Helena, Montana, 1987.
• Bobby Bluestem
  Rhonda O'Grady
  A Children's Book on the Tallgrass Prairie. Pemmican Publications, Inc. Unit 2-1635 Burrows Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R2X OT1 Canada. $9.95.
• Buffalo Sunrise: The Story of a North American Giant
  Diane Swanson
  1996
  Sierra Club Books for Children, San Francisco.
• Cacti of Texas and Neighboring States
  Del Weniger
  1991
  University of Texas Press, Austin.
• Dust Bowl, The Southern Plains in the 1930's
  Donald Worster
  1979
  Oxford University Press, New York.
• Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie an Ethnobotanical Guide
  Kelly Kindscher
  1987
  University Press of Kansas.
• Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of the United States
  Edward Knobel
  1977
• Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies
  Scott Collins and Linda Wallace (editors)
  1990
• Flora of the Texas Coastal Bend
  Fred B. Jones
  1975
  Welder Wildlife Foundation, Sinton, Texas.
• Gardening With Prairie Plants
  Sally Wasowski
  2002
  Author's Book Site
  Purchase
• Grass of Trans-Pecos Texas & Adjacent Areas
  A.M. Powell
• Grasses of Southern Oklahoma and North Texas: A Pictorial Guide
  Noble Foundation
• Grasslands
  Lauren Brown
  The Audubon Society Nature Guides. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York.
• How to Manage Small Prairie Fires
  Wayne R. Pauly
  Booklet published by Friends of Dane County Pars, 4315 Robertson Road, Madison, WI 53714. $4.
• Know Your Grasses
  Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Publication B - 182.
• Konza Prairie A Tallgrass Natural History
  O.J. Reichman
  1987
  University of Kansas.
• Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie
  Aimee Larabee
  Purchase
• Life Among the Texas Flora: Ferdinand Lindheimer's Letters to George Engelmann
  Minetta Altgelt Goyne
  Purchase
• Little House on the Prairie
  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Especially By the Shores of Silver Lake and On the Banks of Plum Creek
• Manual of the Grasses of the United States
  A. S. Hitchcock
  Dover Reprint of 2nd Edition.
• Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie an Ethnobotanical Guide
  Kelly Kindscher
  1992
  University Press of Kansas.
• My Antonia & O Pioneer!
  Willa Cather
  Her fictional prairie series about immigrants in early Nebraska.
• Native Texas Gardens: Maximum Beauty, Minimum Upkeep
  Andy & Sally Wasowski
  1997
  Author's Book Site
  Purchase
• Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region
  Andy & Sally Wasowski
  1997
  Author's Book Site
  Purchase
• North American Prairie
  J.E. Weaver
  1954
  Johnsen Publishing Company, Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Northern Prairie Wetlands
  1988
  Iowa State University.
• 100 Native Forage Grasses in 11 Southern States
  Horace L. Leithead, Lewis L. Yarlett, and Thomas N. Shiflet
  1971. Reprinted in 1976.
  Agriculture Handbook No. 389, Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Prairie Grasslands
  1992
  A resource to supplement Alberta Education's Junior High Environmental and Outdoor Education Course of Studies, Calgary Board of Education, Calgary, Canada.
• Prairie Propagation Handbook
  Harold Rock Available from Wehr Nature Center, 9701 West College Ave, Franklin, WI 53132 $4.95 each + $1.05 postage for up to 4 books + 50¢ handling fee per book.
• Prairie Primer
  Stan Nichols, Lynn Entine, and Eveyn Howell
  1996
  Extension Publication G2736 by Cooperative Extension Publishing, Room 170, 630 W. Mifflin Street, Madison, WI 53703 Call (608) 262-3346 for availability.
• Prairie Restoration for Wisconsin Schools: A Guide to Restoration from Site Analysis to Management
  M.F. Murray
  1993
  Earthkeeping Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, Wisconsin 53711 $21.10. A superb resource for students, teachers and parents with much application to the Canadian prairies.
• Prairie Seedlings Illustrated: An Identification Guide
  Lora Dittmer and Laura Jackson
  1997
  Self-published $4. Make check out to University of Northern Iowa and mail to Prairie Seedlings Illustrated, Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614.
• Prairie Time A Blackland Portrait
  Matt White
  2006
  Texas A & M Press
  Review
  Purchase
• PrairyErth (A Deep Map)
  William Least Heat-Moon
  Purchase
• Prescribed Burning Guidelines in the Northern Great Plains
  Higgins, Kruse and Piehl
  1989
  US Fish and Wildlife Service and Cooperative Extension Service, South Dakota State University, Box 2206, Brookings, South Dakota 57007
• Project LS, Land stewardship and Lifestyle Decisions, Iowa Specific Environmental Education for Ages 10 to Adult
  Mary Norton and Jay Norton
  1992
  Prairie Hills Farm, New Hartford, IA 50660, 319-983-2622.
• Pronghorn, Portrait of the American Antelope
  Gary Turbak
  1995
  Northland Publishing.
• Restoring the tallgrass Prairie: an Illustrated Manual for Iowa and the Upper Midwest
  S. Shirley
  1994
  U of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa.
• Revegetating with Native Grasses
  Ducks Unlimited Canada
  Box 1160, Stonewall, Manitoba R0C 2Z0. $15 U.S.
• Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation
  Richard C. Bartlett
  Purchase
• Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
  George Diggs, Barney Lipscomb, Robert O'Kennon, Linny Heagy (Illustrator)
  1999
  Botanical Research Institute of Texas
  Book Site
  Purchase
• Texas Range Plants
  Stephan L. Hatch and Jennifer Pluhar
  1993
• Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide
  Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller
  1984
• The Changing Prairie: North American Grasslands
  Anthony Joern and Kathleen H. Keeler (editors)
  1995
• The Explorers' Texas
  Del Weniger
  1984
  Two books: The Lands and Waters, and The Animals They Found.
• The Grasses of Texas
  by Frank W. Gould. 1975. A paperback edition entitled Common Texas Grasses, An Illustrated Guide
  is also available.
• The Prairie Action Curriculum Activity Guide
  Manitoba Naturalists Society.
• The Prairie Builders
  Sneed B. Collard III
  Purchase
• The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook for Prairies, Savannas, and Woodlands
  Stephen Packard and Cornelia F. Mutel (editors)
  An outstanding guide and reference - a must for any restoration effort in Texas.
• The Vegetation of the Fort Worth Prairie
  E.J. Dyksterhuis [dyke-stir-hys]
  1946
  Ecological Monographs, Vol. 16: 1-29, available from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
• The Vegetation of the Western Cross Timbers
  E.J. Dyksterhuis
  1948
  Ecological Monographs, Vol. 18: 325-376., available from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
• The Prairie Garden 70 Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country
  J. Robert Smith with Beatrice S. Smith
  1980
  The University of Wisconsin Press.
• The Texas Blackland Prairie: Land, History, and Cu lture
  Rebecca Sharpless and Joe C. Yelderman (editors)
  1993
  Baylor University.
• Where The Sky Began, Land of the Tallgrass Prairie
  John Madson
  1982
  Purchase
• Wildflowers of Texas
  Geyata Ajilvsgi.
  1984 (1st edition), 2003 (2nd edition).
• Wildflowers of the Davis Mountains & Sand Dune Country
  B.H. Warnock
• Wildflowers of the Guadalupe Mountains & Marathon Basin
  B.H. Warnock
• Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country
  Marshall Enquist
  1987. Reprinted in 2006.

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Journals and Newsletters

• Journal of Range Management
  Bi-monthly of the Society for Range Management.
• Seeding the Snow
  A Journal of Women's Writing and Artwork that Celebrates the Midwest Landscape. Web site.
• Restoration and Management Notes
  Published quarterly by University of Wisconsin Arboretum, Journal Division, 114 N. Murray St., Madison, WI 53715.
• Roader's Digest
  Newsletter of the Office for Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management at the University of Northern Iowa, 113 Center for Energy and Environmental Education. Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0293 (best roadside prairie restoration information publication available)

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Video

• A Prairie Journey
  A 20 min. slide show and written narration that introduces the natural and cultural history of the prairies and an overview of the prairie restoration movement. 73 slides. @$35 + $5 shipping per item. Make checks to: University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Hwy. Madison, WI 53711, 603-263-7888.
• A Prairie Journey
  A 25 min. video, same content as the slide show above, but includes more images. Students narrate, play the background music and provide artwork. @$20 + $5 shipping per item. Make checks to: University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Hwy. Madison, WI 53711, 603-263-7888.