The Prairie

tallgrass prairie has been reduced to less than one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of the original area that it used to cover. Because of the small percentage of remaining area of the tallgrass prairie, ecologists might feel that the tallgrass parries is the most endangered ecosystem. It is believed to have covered around 25 million acres in Minnesota and Iowa at one point, but now there is less than 300,000 acres scattered around Minnesota and Iowa. The remaining acres of tallgrass prairie is scattered

writer, my options and understanding of diverse types of writing has improved immensely. This course allowed me to discover what forms of writing I write best, and what difficulty each type brings. My writing is strong with formal pieces, like the Prairie Meadows Scholarship Essay; pieces where I am allowed to use figurative language and make

On November 7, 2017, I was able to job shadow a physical therapist, Brett Teveldal, at Prairie Rehabilitation in Hartford, South Dakota. This was a career I had been considering for quite awhile and I was very excited to get the chance to see a typical day in the life of a physical therapist. I will be telling you about my experience and how it has helped me in planning for my future. First, I will talk about what happened on my job shadow. I somehow managed to get lost in the metropolitan of Hartford

The experience of growing up in a small rural town in Minnesota which borders the Prairie Island Indian Community is the first experience which gives me a unique identity. Every year Prairie Island Tribal Council members came to educate students about their culture through lectures, dance, and band performances. These experiences gave me a better appreciation and understanding of my Mdewakanton classmates. As a result, I see the commonality between people, I am interested in learning about other

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe have seven value statements, which all tribes have a similar set of statements that they are supposed to follow. These statements tell them how they should treat the land, how to keep their traditions, and how to treat others. These value statements are what keep the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe together and it is really encouraged that they are followed. These statements are what tie the Potawatomi Tribe to the land and keep the old traditions going. The first

around my home is made up of mainly 20% herb and tree cover. Most of the wildfire in my area are made up of prairie fires which have an important role in healthy ecosystems near me. Wild prairie fires can introduce some benefit for the prairie ecosystems near my home. To start wild prairie fires can help decrease the invasion of trees from the edges to the prairie ecosystem. This allows small prairie plants to gain the sun needed to

Eden Prairie Soccer has been a part of my life since I was four years old. All the experiences soccer has given me throughout the years helped make my mission trip to Haiti so successful. While in Haiti, football (soccer) is a huge form of entertainment among the children of the village we visited. The experiences the Eden Prairie Soccer Club has made it possible to connect with the children in Haiti through soccer. First, soccer has taught me many ways how to communicate on the field, through hand

Prairie Kitchen is a small local restaurant that specializes in southern comfort and country style cooking. Prairie Kitchen focuses mostly on breakfast items, but does offer breakfast and dinner items all day and everyday. Established in 1983 Prairie Kitchen has been located at 102 Holiday Drive for 34 years and is a common known restaurant around the Ardmore area. As I approached the restaurant I looked up and saw the outdated signs, the logo looked to be the original logo. The parking lot had

Established in 1983 Prairie Kitchen has been located at 102 Holiday Drive for 34 years and is a familiar restaurant around the Ardmore area. Prairie Kitchen is a local restaurant that specializes in southern comfort and country style cooking which focuses on breakfast, but does offer breakfast and dinner all day and everyday. As I approached the restaurant I looked up and saw the outdated signs, the logo looked to be the original logo. The parking lot had no more than ten cars in it at 7:00 A.M,

relationships. As a result, modifying one level of the food web can cause unintended consequences when the entire food web is into taken account. Hoping to protect their crops, the ranchers were justified in their actions: their motive to remove prairie dogs from the area was driven by their need to yield a greater amount of crops, not by a malice to eradicate a species. Conservationists are often critical of large industries that destroy massive areas of the Earth in order to produce enough resources