Xerces Comes to Prairie Preview
February 20, 2020 7:00 pm 2 CommentsThis year on March 3, Prairie Preview will be 37 years old. The requests have been coming in regularly for... Read More →
Author Archives for Lon Drake
About Lon Drake
This old guy's favorite large-scale conservation projects include integrating soils, water, plants, and animals, especially native species. I still bike through my South Sycamore stormwater management system from 2001.
King Coal Leaves Iowa
February 13, 2020 7:00 pm 3 CommentsContinuing last week’s history of Iowa coal: The many scattered pockets of coal, which served small-scale mining so well in... Read More →
King Coal Visits Iowa
February 6, 2020 7:00 pm 3 CommentsThis winter season, some of my blogs are going to venture into Iowa energy, sustainability, and links to the environment.... Read More →
An Educational Brushpile
January 30, 2020 7:00 pm 1 CommentLast week my blog photo caption mentioned that the children on the brushpile were learning something. Since then, I’ve had... Read More →
And the Good News Is…
January 23, 2020 7:00 pm Leave your thoughtsThe media long ago learned that bad news is more profitable than good news. Murders, oil spills, and raging politicians... Read More →
Modeling Climate Change is Successful
January 16, 2020 7:00 pm 2 CommentsThe argument sometimes made against models of climate change is “if they cannot predict tomorrow’s weather, how can we trust... Read More →
A Brief History of Mapping World Climate
January 9, 2020 7:00 pm 1 CommentEvery passing year lately has had some record-breaking climatic extreme, and its consequences. At the moment this is in southeast... Read More →
Welcoming the New Year
December 26, 2019 7:00 pm 1 CommentThe winter holidays have always been a season of renewal. Civilizations and religions that long proceeded ours created permanent calendars... Read More →
A Nesting Platform for Vultures
December 19, 2019 7:00 pm Leave your thoughtsWhile writing to you last week about the Coralville turkey vultures, it occurred to me that it probably would not... Read More →
The Vultures of Coralville
December 12, 2019 7:00 pm 6 CommentsLast summer, like many summers before it, a flock of turkey vultures was often to be seen over west Coralville.... Read More →
