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Subject: Re: [OM] Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam...
From: PCACala@xxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 06:02:36 EST
Ken writes:

> My wife got me a Gazetteer (DeLorme) for the State of Iowa and I've been
>  studying it furiously in an attempt to find something interesting other
>  than cornfields to photograph.

Iowa has been extensively inventoried for its remaining natural areas.  The
Iowa Chapter of The Nature Conservancy can supply you with a directory of its
properties.  The state has a Natural Areas system with, if I recall correctly,
a directory of preserves.  You'll find the DeLorme Atlas has only a handful of
these shown.  (This applies to many other states, also).

Try and get to some mowed tallgrass prairies in the spring.  Those which had
haying done in the previous summer can give one heck of a spring wildflower
display.  You might also find out the burning schedule for any local prairies.
Photographing a prescribed burn of a prairie is an event you'll remember and
makes for some dramatic pictures, too.  I've only been to one Iowa prairie
near Joel Wilcox's home town, incidentally invaded with Cannabis sativa  - but
I've inventoried hundreds of Missouri prairies and glades.  Picture
opportunities abound.

Winter is a good season to get salable shots of these areas.  The agencies and
groups that manage them don't pay much, but there is a dearth of winter shots
cause biologists and photographers like to stay indoors during Midwestern
winters.

If I had only had a decent telephoto lens in the days I worked the tallgrass
prairies.  I used to get paid to track down Greater Prairie Chickens.  I'd
watch dozens of them in mating rituals.  And I'd walk all day on buffalo
ranges.

Gary Reese
Las Vegas, NV

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