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Photo of the Week – January 9, 2014
Earlier this week, I found myself lying on my back in the tight crawlspace beneath a house at our Platte River Prairies, helping our land manager fix a ruptured water line. For this claustrophobic...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog – Back on the prairie: fresh snow and hoar frost
A guest post from Anne Stine, one of our Hubbard Fellows. All photos are by Anne. Fresh snow on bushclover and yarrow in the Derr Sandhills. The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies,...
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A Warm Kind of Cold
Last week, I complained about the long brown winter we’ve had, and wondered when spring was coming. Well, it’s still brown – we missed out completely on the last snow, which had been forecast to give...
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Photo of the Week – April 3, 2014
This week, I present four photographs from one of the timelapse cameras along a restored wetland in our Platte River Prairies. All four photographs were taken automatically by the camera, and none are...
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Photo of the Week – April 18, 2014
A couple weeks ago, I posted a few photos from the timelapse cameras at a restored wetland on our Platte River Prairies. One of those showed the first documented use by sandhill cranes of that site,...
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Wetland Timelapse – Herons, Eagles, and Vultures
I downloaded timelapse images the other day from the restored stream/wetland at our Platte River Prairies. Among the long series of photos, there were a couple interesting short stories I thought I’d...
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Photo of the Week – July 17, 2014
A couple weeks ago, I posted a photo of a sunset from the Niobrara Valley Preserve. In the post, I talked about having to scramble to get into position for the photo before the color left the sky....
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Watching Wetland Water Levels – Timelapse Photography
It’s timelapse photography time again… I downloaded more photos from the cameras at our restored wetland in the Platte River Prairies a couple weeks ago, and have been looking through the images for...
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Emergence of Life in a Wetland
After many years of wanting to, we finally installed some solar-powered pumps and livestock water tanks in our family prairie. (Thanks to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Nebraska Game and Parks...
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Photo of the Week – August 28, 2014
I made a quick run out to our family prairie this week to see how our grazing management was looking. It was a beautiful evening for a stroll, as the sun went down through layers of diffuse clouds....
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Karen’s Wetland Videos
One of my favorite places within our Platte River Prairies is a restored wetland we usually call “the sandpit wetland” because it is a former sand and gravel mining pit. We restored the site over...
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Photo of the Week – October 30, 2014
I’ve always had a difficult time taking pleasing landscape photos in heavy fog. I love the way prairies and wetlands look on foggy days, but I rarely come away with a scenic photo I’m happy with....
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Photo of the Week – February 12, 2015
Last week, Jasmine (one of our two Hubbard Fellows) and I spent a morning at the Derr Wetland Restoration here in the Platte River Prairies. We wanted to get some photos and video of the site before...
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More Timelapse and More Wetland Restoration
Having just downloaded nearly two months of images from the timelapse cameras at our Derr Wetland Restoration Project (I showed photos and video from this site last week as well), I went through the...
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Beaver Crossings
Karen Hamburger, a longtime volunteer with us, recently passed along another batch of trail camera video clips from our Derr Wetland Restoration. You might remember seeing some of her video in an...
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Photo of the Week – August 27, 2015
My wife, whom I love deeply. Kim Helzer collecting aquatic invertebrates in the Helzer family prairie/wetland.
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The Value of the Water in the Nebraska Sandhills
The Nebraska Sandhills is an incredible landscape of nearly 12 million acres of prairie. Most of the Sandhills consists of privately-owned ranches, and the majority of that land is conservatively...
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Photo of the Week – February 23, 2017
The weather has been extraordinarily warm for the last couple weeks, but it’s finally getting colder. While I’ve enjoyed getting outside to play soccer and other outdoor recreation activities, I’m...
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Photo of the Week – March 24, 2017
Below are two photos of a creek and associated wetlands taken by a timelapse camera. The first photo was taken in early June, 2015 and the second photo was taken about a month later. Looking just at...
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Photo of the Week – August 18, 2017
A few years ago, with technical and financial help from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, we fenced out the pond at our family’s land and installed...
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