Cemetery Prairies of Illinois 

Oooooh yeah. Real nice.... Love the species thumbnail pics....

Perfect info to incorporate in the 4th-grade science and social studies curriculums regarding Illinois history and plants.

Cool video, your voice as an Illinoian historic conservationist will be immortalized.

What a wealth of information! Thanks!

Nice work Chris! Love the anecdote about the rattlesnake master sandal! Keep on Botanizing

Nice presentation of the cemetery prairies of IL. I have visited many. You did a fine job presenting the uniqueness of cemetery prairies.

Thank you for making this video. Blessings from Bolivia.

It's crazy how little prairie was preserved out of the 22 million acres in Illinois. Missouri fared a little better. The entomologist in my Rattlesnake Master video was from Illinois and he was shocked at how much prairie we had in MO compared to Illinois. I enjoyed your video.

Excellent introduction to Illinois tall grass prairies. Several community colleges in Illinois including College of Lake County and Highland Community College have long-term prairie restoration projects that were started in the 1970s. In both these cases seeds were collected from local remnant prairies.

I have visited Loda just recently...wonderful little spot

We've put a ton of work into Short Pioneer Cemetery Nature Preserve. It started out with 0.3 decent prairie and 1 acre of oaks and other species. We've eliminated the trees and things are turning around. We're now working on expanding prairie north into an abandoned hayfield.

What a great informational video! Thank you!

Beautiful.

Excellent video! I wonder what the tax implications in Illinois are for someone who changes a portion of their land from farming to prairie...I know in my area the taxes are ridiculous unless you farm the land...my neighbors had fields of beautiful native milkweeds and other wildflowers but have taken to planting the acres around their houses because of the taxes...so if anyone knows this information I would appreciate some information on this. Great work!

Thank you for this!

great video!

19:39 I hear _Megatibicen dorsatus,_ a large cicada species that thrives in tall grass prairies. Uncommon and even threatened farther east where much of the tall grass prairies have been converted into agricultural land. Recently someone uploaded a photo of this species to iNat from a remnant of the grand prairie here in eastern Arkansas which as far as I know, might be a new record.

Great presentation! Thank you.

Two of the prairie plants you mentioned I already told my friends I wanted planted on my grave. Lol.

Thank you for this

Had never heard of them; some are quite pretty! Good video!

I live in lockport and have two 80ish year old maple trees. My soil is as black and rich as it gets.

Very cool

Excellent production. Where can I get information about volunteering for prairie restoration and maintenance?

Chris, As we maintain 285 acres of tallgrass prairie in Tennessee, we have controlled prescribed burns on a rotating basis. I would assume that the nearby cemetery forbids any prescribed burns to maintain the natural cycle of tallgrass prairie. Is this assumption correct?

i'm in love with you

Liriodendron tulipifera

"A Little Plot on the Prairie" G'nite John-boy.

I am sell em

Does this guy have a life? How the hell can he remember all those scientific names for so many plants?