Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky
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Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky

Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky

Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis

About this book

Winner of the 2023 Nebraska Book Award

In the Nebraska Sandhills, ranchers on horseback and in pickup trucks share the range with pronghorn antelope, burrowing owls, and long-billed curlews. The native grasses grow greener as the cattle grow fatter. Throughout the region, river otters and mink swim in streams nourished by springs bubbling up from the High Plains (Ogallala) aquifer. Over years of close observation, Stephen R. Jones has gotten to know the Nebraska Sandhills—the twenty-thousand-square-mile expanse of stunning prairie and thriving wetlands. He has felt the warm breath of a white-tailed doe guarding her spotted fawn, learned to communicate with a family of long-eared owls, and developed an improbable hiking relationship with a wild turkey. He has documented a breeding bird population that is growing more diverse and witnessed the long-awaited return of nesting trumpeter swans.

These personal stories, accompanied by words of insight from Native American leaders, Sandhills ranchers, and grassland ecologists, help us envision a quiet relationship with the natural world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Portal in the Sky
  8. Timpsula
  9. Owls
  10. Feather’s Touch
  11. Ojo de Agua
  12. Dawn Chorus
  13. Shorebirds in the Grass
  14. Swan Lake
  15. Black Cherry Moon
  16. Milkweed Silk
  17. Snow Blows like Spirits in the Sun
  18. Popping Trees
  19. Turtle Tears
  20. Circles of Life
  21. Path of Souls
  22. Grace
  23. Sacred Gifts
  24. Fallen Star
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Notes
  27. About Stephen R. Jones