BIO
150 -- Introduction to Biological
Inquiry --Prairie
Restoration
Fall
2009
- "The schools in which I was educated
were by most standards first-rate. But they were, as our schools
generally are, indifferent to the place and to the culture in which
they operated.
Among my science courses, I took two full years of biology, but I never
learned that the beautiful meadow at the bottom of my family's pasture
was remnant virgin prairie. We did not spend, so far as I can
remember, a single hour on prairies -- the landscape in which we were
immersed -- in two years of biological study."
- Paul Gruchow, Grass Roots -- The Universe of Home
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Instructor: J. Brown, 1204
Science,
x3096, Personal
Web Page
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Staff:
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Susan Kolbe -- Laboratory
Technician
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Larissa Mottl -- Conard
Environmental Research Area Manager
- David Montgomery, Matthew Nielsen -- T.A.s
- Kevin Engel --
Science Reference Librarian
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Class Handouts
Class powerpoints
9/4 History of a place
9/28 Communities
10/9 Grassland adaptations
10/30 Ecosystems
11/6 Ecosystems and bison
grazing
11/20 Conservation
Papers assigned from the literature (click to
download)
Smith,
D.D. 1998. Iowa prairie: original extent and loss, preservation
and recovery attempts. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 105:94-108.
Drobney, P. The phoenix people of sod corn country. -- get from library
e-reserve
Howe, H. 1999.
Response of Zizia aurea to seasonal mowing and fire in a restored
prairie.
American Midland Naturalist 141:373-380
Hulbert,
L.C. 1969. Fire and litter effects in undisturbed bluestem prairie
in Kansas. Ecology 50:874-877.
Links
Tillers
-- A Journal of Prairie Restoration Research (published by past
Bio 150 courses)
Investigations
-- A Handbook for Grinnell College Biology and Chemistry Courses
Last edited 27 Aug 2009
Author: brownj(at)grinnell.edu