In 2006, Sneed B. Collard won the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, for the book, “The Prairie Builders, Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands”. In this book, Collard tells the story of a team of biologists led by Pauline Drobney as they work to recreate an actual prairie similar to the great prairies that we had in the U.S. prior to farming. In order to tell this story, Collard spends a great deal of time getting involved with the staff and interviewing the staff and More...

Good science, good writing, nice photographs. Good case study. Shows that ecological restoration is complex. Underlines that restored ecosystem is not as good as the original, but positive message overall.

Read this to see if it was relevant to a project at work - it is, so we will list it as recommended reading. It is part of a series called "Scientists in the Field" and I currently have a pile of those checked out, some as potentially useful to the project, some just beca More...

My seven year old checked this book out of the library. I offered to read it to him and he agreed. When I would say, "Do you want to stop for now?" he'd say, "No, I really like this, keep reading." We ended up reading it in three sittings and really, really enjoyed reading about re-establising prairie land in a national refuge in Iowa. Both of us really want to visit there sometime. It was great to hear about the whole process and how challenging it truly is to try to r More...