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Gr 4-8 Collard chronicles the prairie restoration project at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. His explanation of the complexities of returning farmland to tallgrass prairie incorporates information about the prairie ecosystem and accounts of the work of scientists and volunteers. Among the projects he describes are the locating and collecting of seeds of surviving...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The latest entries in the first-rate Scientists in the Field series put conservation front and center, focusing on the efforts of scientists to reverse the damage done by humans to, respectively, American prairies and African mountain gorillas. In both cases, it is the expansion of farming that has reduced native habitats and introduced nonnative species and diseases. In Prairie Builders, Collard traces the decades-long development and monitoring of the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa, an ambitious attempt to reclaim farmla...Log In or Sign Up to Read More