The book contains a comprehensive list of prairies that can be visited by the public in the United States and Canada organized by counties in each state in the United States and Provinces in Canada. Each entry has a short description of the area (geographically and environmentally such as the plants, birds and animals that can be seen at the sites) along with a brief description of how to find it. There are also phone numbers of entities (individuals or organizations) to contact for more detailed information.
The book also contains short introductory materials for the US and Canada describing genenerally what a prairie is and how it came about. Also there is a Table of Contents, illustrations, a glossary, index and bibliography.
There is no other book of its kind.
This book has also won the 2003 National Garden Club Illinois Tommy Donnan Certificates Publications award and the 2003 Garden Clubs' of Illinois' Award #53D.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Look up a given prairie's location or basic facts quickly:
Collaboratively written by Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz, Prairie Directory Of North America is an information packed, accessible, reader friendly, straightforward, ecological reference book filled cover to cover with the names, one-paragraph descriptions, and geographical locations of prairies found throughout the United States and Canada. The prairie listings are organized first by state (or Canadian province), then by county for easy reference. Telephone numbers for each prairie area's... more info
Makes me want to take a long road trip:
Not sure how it is that I was sent this book, but I found it in my mailbox on a dreary Seattle afternoon. Instantly I was flooded with memories of dewy summer mornings that promise to become hot sticky days; the smell of earth and sweet grasses rising with the humidity; the sounds of grasshoppers hopping, crickets chirping, skippers fluttering, big blue stem, bur oak, gamma grass all rustling from a breeze that seems to tug at me to follow it to the horizon. Having grown up in Illinois where 99% of the... more info