#Prairie Grove

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Prairie Grove, Arkansas December 2010

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Shoutout to my dad for keeping me updated on all the drama from my mom's Little House on the Prairie rewatch

[thspod]

A quick break from Dave the Diver month.

[arrrn124]

Little House on the Prairie is some gay ahh show like what

[hottdoggblogg]

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[reasonsforhope]

"The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday [March 19, 2024] by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

Save the Redwoods League bought a property containing these remarkable trees in 2013, and began working with the tribe to restore it, planting 50,000 native plants in the process. The location was within lands the Yurok once owned but were taken during the Gold Rush period.

Centuries passed, and by the time it was purchased it had been used as a lumber operation for 50 years, and the nearby Prairie Creek where the Yurok once harvested salmon had been buried.

Currently located on the fringe of Redwoods National and State Parks which receive over 1 million visitors every year and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, the property has been renamed ‘O Rew, a Yurok word for the area.

“Today we acknowledge and celebrate the opportunity to return Indigenous guardianship to ‘O Rew and reimagine how millions of visitors from around the world experience the redwoods,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League.

Having restored Prarie Creek and filled it with chinook and coho salmon, red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl, and other species, the tribe has said they will build a traditional village site to showcase their culture, including redwood-plank huts, a sweat house, and a museum to contain many of the tribal artifacts they’ve recovered from museum collections.

Believing the giant trees sacred, they only use fallen trees to build their lodges.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director.

It will add an additional mile of trails to the park system, and connect them with popular redwood groves as well as new interactive exhibits.

“This is a first-of-its-kind arrangement, where Tribal land is co-stewarded with a national park as its gateway to millions of visitors. This action will deepen the relationship between Tribes and the National Park Service,” said Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz, adding that it would “heal the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”"

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

[mutant-distraction]

ARKANSAS:

A telephone booth in Prairie Grove has become the first structure of its kind to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

source: Presley Dispatch

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Little House on the Prairie | S3.E5 The Monster of Walnut Grove | 1976 directed by William F. Claxton, director of Night of the Lepus | 1972

[rebeccathenaturalist]

I am still decompressing from four days of driving, but I am intensely pleased that I got to spend a few hours walking the full six-mile loop at Konza Prairie Biological Station in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas. I've been to plenty of old-growth forests, but this was my first time getting to explore an old-growth tallgrass prairie, and the oak groves that often form in low-lying areas. It was saved from being plowed under by all the dolomite stone just under the soil which made agriculture too difficult, other than cattle grazing. After driving for hours through cornfields and pastures full of non-native pasture grasses, it was such a relief to be able to immerse myself in a place that looks much like this entire landscape did for thousands of years. I know they're still doing restoration work there, since fire suppression has caused some imbalances, and of course the extermination of bison, but it's one of the best examples of North American tallgrass prairie still available today.

I have a lot more thoughts ruminating about this experience, but for now, enjoy a few pictures.

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Prairie Grove, Arkansas November 2008

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Funks Grove McLean County, IL

Love in the Prairie State

[tradfolkpoll]

btw in case anyone was interested in these stats i'm putting under the cut a list of songs that have been submitted more than once

wayfaring stranger (5)

wagoner's lad (3)

black is the color of my true love's hair (3)

shenandoah (3)

i never will marry (3)

house of the rising sun (3)

hares on the mountain (3)

shady grove (3)

in the pines (3)

bury me not on the lone prairie (3)

the devil's nine questions (3)

bury me beneath the willow (3)

stewball (3)

john hardy (3)

michael row the boat ashore (3)

pretty saro (2)

the cuckoo (2)

the water is wide (2)

diamond joe (2)

wildwood flower (2)

john henry (2)

this train is bound for glory (2)

careless love (2)

haul away joe (2)

frankie and johnnie (2)

rock island line (2)

i ride an old paint (2)

sometimes i feel like a motherless child (2)

streets of laredo (2)

darling corey (2)

wabash cannonball (2)

on top of old smokey (2)

turtle dove (2)

git along little dogies (2)

santiana (2)

greenland whale fisheries (2)

twelve gates to the city (2)

wind and rain (2)

come all ye fair and tender ladies (2)

deep blue sea (2)

scarborough fair (2)

wondrous love (2)

eyes on the prize (2)

[cjlouwho]

(Re: my last ask: I am, like, ALSO itching to hear you talk about Little House on the Prairie bc DAMN I was obsessed with those books in grade school)

I loved the books as a kid but I was OBSESSED with the tv show, it’s like a homeschoolers right of passage to watch lhotp and fall in love with Albert Ingalls. I still have the entire series on dvd and I’m waiting for my nieces to get old enough to appreciate it.

I’m also constantly thinking about a bucktommy au where it’s the 1800’s and Tommy Kinard is new to Walnut Grove and he moves into the little bunker on Evan Buckley’s property to help out with the farm.

Yummy.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Orchard Oriole

Photo: Ad Konings

"Most common in the Midwest and South is this small oriole. It favors open areas with scattered groves of trees, so human activities may have helped it in some areas, opening up the eastern woodlands and planting groves of trees on the prairies. Orchard Orioles often gather in flocks during migration. The black-throated young male, sitting alone in a treetop and singing his jumbled song, is often confusing to beginning birders."

- Audubon Field Guide