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#prairie

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millerebonds

@marinetondelier L'AOC pourrit la vie des vignerons qui voudraient bosser avec des vignes résistantes, et pendant ce temps les vignes du programme Resdur de l'INRA sont ultra-minoritaires...
Même des conventionnels aimeraient avoir ces vignes.
C'est un exemple dans un océan de conneries de ce genre.
Pourtant voici à quoi ressemble la vigne floréal de l'INRA l'année dernière, 2024, zéro traitements...
#viticulture #pesticides #agriculture #zeropesticides #ecologie #vin #agriculturebio #prairie

Vigne Floréal du programme Resdur de l'INRA dans une prairie.
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@kevinrothrock

If you move somewhere with harsh winters, it won't be an issue. Growing up in the Canadian prairies, I'd never even *heard* of a snow day until I heard it in some USAnian media.

The closest we've got is that they will stop running the school buses when the wind chill drops below -45C -- but the schools stay open. You can still drop your kids off and not see them all day 😜

#Canada#prairie#winter
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Jackrabbits - well, all #hares, and all non-lop #rabbits - have great ears. Younger folks won't remember indoor TV aerials affectionately called "rabbit ears", but the name was apt.

Here's a white-tailed jackrabbit - which yes, is actually a hare, not a rabbit - who has his ears up monitoring for threats while he munches some food. They turn to face different directions to focus sound from, like a radar dish, and they both operate independently. I call this "swivel mode".

#Canada#wildlife#animal
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More #Canadian #prairie #jackrabbits (again, actually a kind of #hare, not #rabbit...) from my wintry yard today.

These two handsome fellers (or gals, who knows?) are in the front yard, looking at me through my open front door. One's got a skinnier head than the other. Dunno if that tells me anything. They all keep some dark markings on their ears and nose when they turn white for the winter, but there's a lot of variety in terms of how much and where else they keep a bit of colour.

Again, these are probably Lepus townsendii, the White-tailed Jackrabbit. There are also Lepus americanus, the Snowshoe Hare, in the prairies, but I think they're mostly further north than me, up where the trees start in what we call the "parkland" area. I'm in the middle of the "grain belt", which is bald prairie for the most part.

I have a bunch more of these, plus some videos which need trimming. Captioning these takes some effort so it might take me a while to work through them.

#wildlife #yard #backyard #animal #bunny #SK Canada #winter #jacks

A wild hare, of the species White-tailed Jackrabbit (which aren't rabbits), also just called "jackrabbits" or "jacks" in the prairies. This one sits in the middle of a snowy yard, the rest of which is out of focus. There are a few rabbit turds - little black dots - scattered here and there, standing out against the snow. He or she is mostly white in their winter coat, with black eartips and brown markings on the nose and around the face. He is sitting with haunches on the ground, front feet together with head erect - sitting up - and with ears erect but not in "threat is near" swivel mode. He is looking at the photographer, who is only about 5 meters away.
Photograph of a White-tailed Jackrabbit, which is actually a kind of hare, in the snow-covered front yard of a house in Saskatchewan, in the middle of the Canadian prairies. The scene is mostly white snow, with only the subject in focus. He is seen in profile, with head turned towards the camera. The ears are erect and fully "deployed", facing 180 degrees apart, listening for possible threats. He appears to be looking directly into the camera.
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Jaana
Great experience to meet these huge animals in the wild! This mixed-grass prairie is home to agile bighorn sheep and lively prairie dogs. The rich geologic formations of this park is very interesting.
#nationalpark #badlandsnationalpark #parcnatural #bison #southdakota #prairie #geologicalformations #usnationalparks #badlandsnps #findyourpark #hikingadventures #neverstopexploring #hikeyourownhikes #getbusyliving #wanderlust #responsibletourism #mylifemyadventure
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

A rare #orchid survives on a few tracts of #prairie. Researchers want to learn its secrets phys.org/news/2024-08-rare-orc

"The orchid is a unique insight into its nearly vanished ecosystem—the #TallgrassPrairie—as well as for understanding connectedness with pollinators and other plants... The orchid's only known #pollinators are #hawkmoths, big #moths that are just the right fit and size to reach the orchid's nectar, in a long spur, while also pollinating the plant."

photo of an orchid plant with white flowers
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🦅 🪿RKeller Photography🏳️‍🌈

I'm very fortunate to live a community that's been restoring native prairie in public parks/areas. Aside from the work needed to maintain/diversify the prairie, these areas are largely unmanaged. Dense w/ vegetation they've become dense with wildlife that benefits from the prairie while also spreading native seeds to areas outside the restored areas.

The best part for me is the mass blooms like this rudbeckia in Iowa City City Park.
(08/19/24)

Photograph of a group of rudbeckia flowers surrounded by out of focus flowers and green foliage. This variety of rudbeckia has long, rigid green stems that end in flowers that have long, yellow petals that radiate from a cone-shaped central disk filled with dark brown to black florets.
Photograph of a large bloom of rudbeckia flowers with out of focus flowers and green foliage in the background. This variety of rudbeckia has long, rigid green stems that end in flowers that have long, yellow petals that radiate from a cone-shaped central disk filled with dark brown to black florets.
#prairie#NativePlants#BloomScrolling
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DoomsdaysCW

What the heck is “#CornSweat” and is it making the Midwest more dangerous?

It’s pretty much just as gross as it sounds.

"In one 2020 study, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics analyzed a past summer heat wave in the Midwest and found that cropland — most of which comprised corn in this part of the country — can increase moisture in the air above it by up to 40 percent."

by Benji Jones
Aug 29, 2024

"Ah, yes, late August in the Midwest: a time for popsicles by the lake, a trip to the county fair, and, of course, extreme humidity made more miserable by … corn sweat.

"Corn sweat. It’s a thing! And people are talking about it.

The term refers to the moisture released by fields of corn during hot and sunny weather. Like all other plants, corn transpires — meaning, it sucks up water from the ground and expels it into the air as a way to stay cool and distribute nutrients. Moisture also enters the air when water in the soil evaporates. Together with transpiration, this process is called #evapotranspiration.

"So, where you find loads of plants packed tightly into one place, whether the Amazon rainforest or #Iowa, humidity can skyrocket during hot and especially sunny periods, making the air feel oppressive.

"That’s what happened this week: A late-summer #heatwave brought record and near-record temperatures to parts of the Midwest where there also happen to be vast fields of corn. With plenty of sunlight and temperatures in the high 90s, it was enough to make corn sweat, producing extremely uncomfortable weather.

"It’s not that corn sweats more than other plants — an acre releases less moisture on average than, say, a large oak tree — but the Midwest has a lot of corn in late August. In Iowa, for example, more than two-thirds of the area is farmland, and corn is the top crop (followed by #soybeans, which, by the way, also sweat)."

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"Again, it’s not just crops across the #Midwest that release moisture, increase humidity, and make summers feel disgusting (I know firsthand; I grew up in Iowa). The millions of acres of #prairie that industrial farmland replaced — mostly to feed livestock and make ethanol — would have also produced loads of moisture, Basso said.

"But there are some key differences between native #ecosystems and #IndustrialFarmland, he added. '#NativePrairies are diverse ecosystems with a variety of plant species, each with different root depths and water needs, helping to create a balanced moisture cycle,' he told me. 'In contrast, corn and #soy #monocultures are uniform and can draw water from the soil more quickly.'"

Read more:
vox.com/down-to-earth/369117/c

Vox · What the heck is “corn sweat” and is it making the Midwest more dangerous?By Benji Jones
#CimateChange#IndustrialAgriculture#BigAg
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