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Author: M. F. Vidrine Publisher: ISBN: 9780368051814 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The Cajun Prairie Gardens demonstrate wildscaping with native prairie plants in southwestern Louisiana. The gardens are family-owned and operated. The book provides an introduction to the authors' family and their gardens. Chapters include a description of some of the gardens: Louisiana irises, mints, peas, milkweeds, sunflowers, grasses, biodiversity and pollinators. A chapter celebrating many of the visitors is followed by a chapter on progressive landscaping and residential planning.
Author: M. F. Vidrine Publisher: ISBN: 9780368051814 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The Cajun Prairie Gardens demonstrate wildscaping with native prairie plants in southwestern Louisiana. The gardens are family-owned and operated. The book provides an introduction to the authors' family and their gardens. Chapters include a description of some of the gardens: Louisiana irises, mints, peas, milkweeds, sunflowers, grasses, biodiversity and pollinators. A chapter celebrating many of the visitors is followed by a chapter on progressive landscaping and residential planning.
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine Publisher: M.F. Vidrine ISBN: 9780615368139 Category : Prairie ecology Languages : en Pages : 314
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"The Cajun Prairie, a 2.5 million acre wilderness in 1600, was occupied by Native Americans and the native prairie plants and animals. By 1800, the tallgrass prairie in September obscured the view across the landscape making it extremely easy to get lost, and by December the mud was so deep that a wagon was quickly buried to the axle, but winter fires brought forth the most luxuriant growth of grasses and wildflowers from early spring to late summer. 'The most beautiful region in Louisiana,' 'the garden of Louisiana' and 'one of the most agreeable views in nature' were descriptions of early travelers like C.C. Robin, William Darby and Col. Samuel Lockett. Today, this prairie is listed as 'critically imperiled (S1)' by the Louisiana Natural Heritage Program. Literally less than 100 acres remain in narrow strips and small pieces dotting the landscape. The natural history of this prairie is described for the first time as result of the work of a group of devoted prairie ecologists and enthusiasts. This is their story and a view of the future as restoration ecologists attempt to recreate the Cajun Prairie as a sustainable landscape, a remarkable biodiversity garden and a tribute to our natural heritage"--Cover, p. 4.
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine Publisher: ISBN: 9780464891482 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana is a 30 year old project carried out by scientists and volunteers. This book uses photographs to tell the story of this project and to celebrate the volunteers who made the project possible. The Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society maintains the site, educates interested groups and provides tours of the site. The book is in essence the scrapbook of the author--an evolutionary ecologist who played a role in the project origination. This book also celebrates the City of Eunice and its university, Louisiana State University Eunice.
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine Publisher: ISBN: 9780368364808 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Cajun Prairie is 99.9 percent destroyed. However, the authors discovered remnants of this prairie habitat along railroad rights-of-ways in the 1980s and photographed these remnants during their years of investigation. More than 200 of these images are arranged into monthly displays in an effort to provide views of the prairie as it may have appeared in the 1800s. The remnants were each distinctive in their biodiversity, and each provided a splash of color from the blooming plants at different times of the year. These remnants are now decimated; thus these images are basically all that remains. An essay on the discovery of these remnants and the discoveries made while studying these remnants introduces and closes the monthly presentation of images.
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine Publisher: ISBN: 9781714376155 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Cajun Prairies: Then and Now provides a brief introduction to the natural areas in southwestern Louisiana. These prairies, like so much natural habitat, is lost. Efforts to appreciate the natural history of the region and efforts to recreate natural areas by restoration activities are central in this story. This little book provides a final clarion call for the Cajun Prairies, a habitat that is filled with history and potential.
Author: Keagan LeJeune Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1496847342 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 301
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In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana’s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished—communities including the author’s own. Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it’s also a search for LeJeune’s own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana’s geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home.
Author: Alma Brunson Reed Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467100242 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 130
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Long before C.C. Duson--realtor, sheriff, and state senator--established his town on the Louisiana prairie, Cajuns, Europeans, and Native Americans had forged homes on the isolated site. Then in 1894, Duson's city auction enabled numerous ethnic groups to buy lots in the new town. Railroad construction brought Anglo, African-American, and Irish laborers, while Lebanese and Jewish merchants saw retail opportunities in Eunice. Fearful of war rumors in Europe prior to 1914, German families immigrated to prairie farms. In 1929, Italians arrived as the Mississippi River's flooding disrupted their lives. By the 1930s, the Tepetate oil field was discovered south of Eunice, creating fortunes for Anglo workers. Men from nearby World War II military bases often settled in Eunice after marrying local girls. Eunice saw new arrivals as petrochemical plants and pipelines began construction in the 1950s. The diverse traditions of newcomers blended with the dominant Cajun culture, resulting in the rich gumbo of citizens' lives. Legendary Locals of Eunice celebrates some individuals who have contributed to the vibrant and diverse culture of Eunice through the years.
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine Publisher: Gail Q Vidrine Collectables ISBN: 9780963730411 Category : Prairie plants Languages : en Pages : 183
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Introduces the southwestern Louisiana prairie ecosystem and provides an account of the activities on the Cajun Prairie Restoration Site in Eunice, Louisiana, since its origin in the winter of 1988 through the sixth year (1994) of restoration.
Author: M. F. Vidrine
Author: M. F. Vidrine
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine
Author: Keagan LeJeune
Author: Alma Brunson Reed
Author: Malcolm F. Vidrine
Author: Louisiana Academy of Sciences
Author: Carol Diggory Shields