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Title:

America's lost landscape [videorecording] : the tallgrass prairie / a production of New Light Media, Inc. ; written and directed by David O'Shields ; produced by Daryl Smith, David O'Shields.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Edition:

Special ed.

Publisher:

Bullfrog Films,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Prairies--North America.
Prairie ecology--North America.
Grasslands--North America.
Prairie animals--North America.
Prairie plants--North America.
Indians of North America.
United States--History--19th century.
United States--Territorial expansion.

Other Authors:

O'Shields, David.
Smith, Daryl.
Gish, Annabeth, 1973-
Carlson, Bill, 1948-
Keane, Brian.
New Light Media.
Bullfrog Films.

Notes:

Documentary. Narrator: Annabeth Gish. Produced in association with the University of Northern Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa Foundation and the University of Northern Iowa Native Roadside Vegetation Center Prairie Institute. Special features: more extensive interviews with 15 subject experts, additional nature footage of 18 prairie locations, and 40 still photos.

Summary:

Tells the story of one of the world's great ecosystems and its transformation from natural landscape to farmland. The tallgrass prairie was once a prominent feature of the North American continent that was reduced, in less than a century, to the vanishing point.

ISBN:

9781594583834
1594583838

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

CHPB482 -- North English Public Library (North English)