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August 15 – 21, 2022 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on August 14, 2022, in Prairie and tagged deer antlers, drought, fog, insects, monarch butterflies, moths, Pitcher's sage, reptiles. Leave a comment

April 4 – 10, 2022 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on April 3, 2022, in Prairie and tagged butterflies, gardening, morel, moths, nesting, pocket gopher, redbuds, skunk, woodchuck. Leave a comment

January 11 – 17, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on January 10, 2021, in Prairie and tagged beetles, bird feeders, coyotes, grasshoppers, hedge apples, moths, tree cavities. Leave a comment

August 3 – 9, 2020 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on August 2, 2020, in Prairie and tagged american lotus, ashy sunflower, beetles, bidens, boneset, butterfly, chigger, compassplant, coneflower, coreopsis, cricket, crow, DEET, euphoria corollata, gayfeather, gentians, grasshopper, hedge parsley, ironweed, kansas poinsettia, katydid, maximilian sunflower, moths, Permethrin, prairie milkweed, sawtooth sunflower, showy partridge pea, slender mountain mint, spider, spiderwebs, sticktite, stiff sunflower, tick, treefrog, water hemlock, wild four-o'clock, wild petunia, yellow flower moon. Leave a comment

June 3 – 9, 2019 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on June 2, 2019, in June, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged antelopehorn milkweed, blue heron, blue wild indigo, catalpa, cinquefoil, cottonwood fluff, daisy fleabane, delphinium, deptford pink, echinacea, evening primrose, false wild indigo, frogs, gooseberry, lightning bug, meadowlark, moths, mulberry, oxeye daisy, penstemon, prairie phlox, prairie rose, prickly pear cactus, redwinged blackbird, roughleafed dogwood, salsify, sensitivebrier, snapping turtle, spiderwort, spittle bug, tornado, tree frog, water strider, white wild indigo, yellow sweet clover. Leave a comment

June 4 – 10, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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June 4, 2018

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This entry was posted on June 3, 2018, in June, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged bindweed, brome pollen, canada musk thistle, cattails, chiggers, cinquefoil, crawdad, crown vetch, delphinium, deptford pink, dogwood, echinacea, evening primrose, frogs, lightning bug, milkweeds, moths, oxeye daisy, penstemon, prairie phlox, prairie rose, prickly pear, salsify, sensitivebrier, spawning, spiderwort, spittle bug, ticks, tree frog, trumpetvine, turtles, waterbug, white wild indigo, yellow sweet clover. Leave a comment

March 5 – 11, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on March 4, 2018, in Kansas, March, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged cedar pollen, cool season grasses, elm pollen, Loess Bluff National Wildlife Refuge, maple pollen, moths, Orion, quivira national wildlife refuge, Sandhill crane, Sirius, snow geese, turkey vultures, western chorus frogs, wheat, woodcock. Leave a comment

April 24 – 30, 2017 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on April 24, 2017, in April, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged buckeye, carpenter bee, chickweed, cinquefoil, dandelion, gnats, hoary puccoon, jack in the pulpit, Kentucky coffee, lambsquarter, lousewort, May apple, moths, mud wasp, mustard garlic, nettle, papaw, paper wasp, plantain, poke, verbena, violet, watercress, white eyed grass, wild onion, wild strawberry, woodland phlox, yellow oxalis. 1 Comment

March 27 – April 2, 2017 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on March 26, 2017, in Kansas, March, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged box elder beetle, burning prairie, fox, henbit, ladybug, moths, muskrat, pussy toes, redbud, songbird, spiders, western chorus frog, wood rat. 1 Comment

February 15 – 21, 2016 Kaw Valley Almanac

February 15, 2016

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This entry was posted on February 14, 2016, in February, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged Baker Wetlands, bat, beaver, bluebird, bobcat, cottontail, coyote, duck, eagle, fire hazard, fox, gull, hawk, moss, moths, muskrat, opossum, raccoon, snow geese, Squaw Creek, squirrel, trumpeter swan, white nose syndrome. Leave a comment

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Twelve Years of Wild Douglas County!

If you like the weekly posts of Kaw Valley Almanac, you might be interested in purchasing a compilation of these kinds of posts that Ken Lassman has put together into a book, along with essays on the land and the ecosystems of the area. This book was designed not to be just another coffee table book full of pictures; rather it was designed to be used as a guide to accompany you when you take your treks outdoors to observe nature first hand. You can get this book at a number of local bookstores or order it here for $15 + $2 shipping (regular price: $20). Click here to purchase your copy via Paypal.

Kaw Valley Almanac

Ken Lassman has been keeping this almanac for over a decade, He invites you to share your observations and photos in the comments section. You can find his book Wild Douglas County at The Raven Bookstore and The Community Mercantile in Lawrence.

Baby Bear Moon: December

The Osages were keen observers of nature, and while bears have not been in the area for a long time (one wandered into the Baldwin Woods in the 1960s), there is plenty of favorable habitat for them to have lived here side by side with humans since the retreat of the glaciers some 9 or 10,000 years ago. Cougars are more common passing through the area these days, but it’s not out of the question for some bears to be itinerant residents in Douglas County once again if we plan for green corridors connecting the Kaw River floodplain forests to the major tributary reservoirs of Clinton and Perry as well as a safe way for wildlife to migrate to and from the Baldwin Woods, our county’s largest native woodlands located north of the city of Baldwin and Douglas County Lake.

Bald eagles have returned to the area, where they have overwintered along the Kaw since time immemorial, adding the reservoirs to their winter retreat areas after they were built in the 60s and 70s. With water levels drying up many area ponds and creeks, the drought is concentrating wildlife activity along the remaining bodies of water much like a normal December concentrates wildlife along the Kaw due to the ice cover on most open water. December is also a time to look for deer antlers which are falling off as mating season winds down, and if we get snow, tracking the activities of wildlife in area woods and prairies. And if mild temperatures persist, don’t forget to enjoy some of the most beautiful constellations of the year as Orion, Andromeda, Taurus, and the Pleiades are often seen under much less comfortable conditions!

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