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December 30 – January 5, 2020 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on December 29, 2019, in Prairie and tagged beetle, cricket, grasshoppers, insect antifreeze, Loess Bluff National Wildlife Refuge, moth, Quadrantid meteor shower, snow geese, summer solstice, sunrise. Leave a comment

August 5 – 11, 2019 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on August 4, 2019, in Prairie and tagged ashy sunflower, beetle, cicada, compassplant, cricket, euphorbia corollata, fall equinox, gayfeather, grasshopper, gray coneflower, hedge parsley, ironweed, katydid, rattlesnakemaster, slender mountain mint, spider, sticktite, stiff sunflower, summer solstice, swallowtail, tick trefoil, tree frog, Vinland Fair, whorled milkweed, wild petunia. Leave a comment

June 17 – 23, 2019 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on June 16, 2019, in June, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged beebalm, blackeyed susan, brome, butterfly milkweed, common milkweed, daisy fleabane, deer car collisions, eastern gamagrass, echinacea, Kansas Land Trust, Kelly Kindscher, musk thistle, oxeye daisy, prairie rose, sensitive brier, slender mountain mint, spiderwort, summer solstice, wild berry harvest. Leave a comment

December 24 – 30, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on December 23, 2018, in December, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged animal track, cottontail rabbit, coyote, deer, eagle, mole, owl, pocket gopher, raptor, snow geese, squirrel, summer solstice, winter solstice, winter songbird flock. Leave a comment

June 18 – 24, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on June 17, 2018, in June, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged beebalm, blackberry, bluegrass, butterfly milkweed, coreopsis, cottonwood, deer antlers, deptford pink, dogwood, dragonfly, echinacea, elderberry, fescue, gray headed coneflower, Johnsongrasss, lead plant, lightning bug, mars, mulberry, new jersey tea, orchardgrass, poison hemlock, raspberry, rolypoly, sensitivebrier, slender mountain mint, sumac, summer solstice, timothy, tree frog, walnut, white prairie clover, wild white indigo. Leave a comment

June 20 – 26, 2016 Kaw Valley Almanac

June 20, 2016

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This entry was posted on June 19, 2016, in June, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged Baker Wetlands, bats, beebalm, blackeyed susan, blue herons, bobcats, butterfly milkweed, canaca wild rye, chickory, common milkweed, coreopsis, crown vetch, culver's root, daisy fleabane, deer, dogbane, eastern gamagrass, echinacea, elderberry, Full Moon, gray fox, hackberry butterfly, hedge parsely, lead plant, milo, oxeye daisy, prairie clovers, queen anne's lace, red fox, sensitivebrier, shorebirds, soybeans, summer solstice, waterfowl, wheat harvest, white sweet clover, yarrow. Leave a comment

March 16 – 22, 2015 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on March 15, 2015, in Kansas, March, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged crocus, daffodil, daylight savings, eastern red cedar, frog, goose, maple tree, pollen, snow geese, spring equinox, Squaw Creek, summer solstice, wild onion. 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.

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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.

Light of Day Returns Moon: February

The Osage’s name, Light of Day Returns Moon, points to the fact that this time of year adds 13 minutes more sunlight per week, and the weekly gains will accelerate. Light is more of a biological trigger for animals than temperature, and the length of the photoperiod triggers endocrine activities that lead to a host of behaviors including breeding cycled, migrations and fur growth.

You may notice that not only is the sun rising earlier and setting later, but it is also migrating northward at the point of sunset/sunrise on the horizon. another way to char the sun’s progression north is to watch the shadows at noon grow progressively shorter as the transit point at noon gets higher in the sky.

Fear not–spring is on its way, and the signs are fun to ferret out in these prevernal days: look for reddening of dogwood twigs, while willow twigs turn yellow; increasing bird songs in the morning; the emerging snowdrops and crocuses, perhaps the early croaks of the western chorus frog on a warmer evening after a rain.

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Kansas Area Watershed Council
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University of Kansas Student Farm
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Kansas Land Trust
Alliance for Wild Ethics
Heartland All Species Foundation
Stan Slaughter, Eco-Troubadour
Community Mercantile Educational Foundation
National Academies of Science information about climate change
Earth Observatory Feature: The Carbon Cycle
Rolling Prairie Alliance

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