Used in my biomes course to supplement presentation.

1. The Prairies

3. Note the similarity with the great plains

8. The annual cycle for grasslands

9. The prairie is the soil biome. Here is the soil food web.

11. Grasslands are not lawns

12. Variation in the grasslands

13. The SD Badlands

14. Grassland fossils and cultures tell of its richness

15. Pine Barrens

16. Primary Prairie Community

18. Sandy Soil Profile

19. Grasses dominate the prairie

20. Little Bluestem

21. Big Bluestem

22. Side Oats Grama

23. Blue Grama

24. Indian Grass

25. Variety of habitat and form

26. Sand Cherry

27. Composite Flowers

29. Spiderwort White Avens Vervain Milk Vetch

30. Liatrus and Northern Bush Clover

31. Badger Hole - Savannah

32. Bison – the symbol of the prairie

33. Bison range in response to human change

34. Bison are known as Prairie species, but only because they were eliminated first in the woodlands

36. No Species is more tied to the great plains ecology than the prairie dog.

37. The relation of the Prairie Dog to both grasses and predators is complex

38. The coyote is a prairie species

39. But so was the wolf

40. Bighorns were part of the western prairies

41. Bighorn

45. Golden Eagle

46. Long and Short Eared Owls

47. Burrowing Owl

49. Western Tanager Bobolink

52. Prairie Falcon

54. Magpie

55. Prairie Rattlesnake

56. A history book in the landscape