Good Resources
The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook for Prairies, Savannas
and Woodlands
Edited by Stephen Packard and Cornelia F. Mutel
Island Press, 1997
This hands-on manual is written by two dozen prairie restoration pioneers
who report their successes, failures, philosophies, and points of
debate. They are botanists, biologists, ecologists, statisticians,
inventors, landscape architects, computer programmers, soils experts,
zoologists, geneticists, and more. In 1997, their diverse practical
experience represented the best science known to the field. As the
book ages (this particular copy is dog-eared, sun-bleached and muddy),
it remains a reliable source of general information and sound advice,
with plenty of southeast Michigan-specific data. It's even a good
read for armchair naturalists. For an example, see Words of Others.
From the Forward, by William R. Jordan III:
This book... is a state-of-the-art account of the craft of prairie
restoration, a parts catalogue and repair manual for the tallgrass
prairies and oak openings of the Midwest. But it is more than that.
It is an account, if you read between the lines, of a new way of perceiving
the natural landscape and of interacting with and inhabiting it; the
acting out, in practical, hardheaded terms, of an idea about nature
that many are coming to see as the basis for a new kind of environmentalism--and
ultimately as the key to the survival of classic ecosystems such as
the tallgrass prairie.
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