Wildfire Recovery at The Niobrara Valley Preserve – Asking The Big Questions
Most of you are familiar with the wildfire that affected our Niobrara Valley Preserve this summer. Well, we’re still trying to regain our footing after that event. A great deal of time and money has...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – April 25, 2013
I made a quick trip up to our Niobrara Valley Preserve this week to help set up time lapse cameras that will help document recovery from last year’s massive wildfires. More on that next week… The...
View ArticleWildfire Recovery at The Niobrara Valley Preserve – Spring Green Up
Spring is finally changing the color of The Nature Conservancy’s Niobrara Valley Preserve in north central Nebraska. After last summer’s wildfire and drought, much of the Preserve was barren and brown...
View ArticleA Visual Update of Wildfire Recovery at the Niobrara Valley Preserve
Back in April, I wrote about our timelapse project at The Nature Conservancy’s Niobrara Valley Preserve. Working with Moonshell Media, we’ve got nine cameras set up around the Preserve to document...
View ArticleWildfire and Erosion (Or Not) at the Niobrara Valley Preserve
After the 2012 wildfire that swept through the Niobrara River Valley in north-central Nebraska, one of the concerns among our neighbors and other observers was the chance of significant erosion from...
View ArticleIn Defense of Erosion
The Nebraska Sandhills region consists of about 12 million acres of sand dunes with a thin layer of vegetation draped across them. That vegetation has come and gone over the last several thousand...
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