The Nature of Nebraska: Ecology and Biodiversity

by Paul A. Johnsgard

Book Overview

Where the eastern and western currents of American life merge as smoothly as one river flows into another is a place called Nebraska. There we find the Platte, a river that gave sustenance to the countless migrants who once trudged westward along the Mormon and Oregon trails. We find the Sandhills, a vast region of sandy grassland that represents the largest area of dunes and the grandest and least disturbed region of mixed-grass prairies in all the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803225962
• ISBN13: 9780803225961
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"