Properly, it’s February, 2024 – the right time to share the final of my posts containing my favourite pictures from 2023. Different blogs share these sorts of pictures sequence on the finish of a 12 months, or – on the newest – just a few days into the following. I, nevertheless, eschew conference, and can share ‘better of’ pictures at any time when I really feel prefer it.
Additionally, I’ve been actually busy.
Jap field turtle. Osage Hills State Park, Oklahoma.
Most of my pictures takes place in Nebraska. That’s largely resulting from the truth that I reside right here. After all, it’s additionally a worthwhile place to {photograph}, with unbelievable variety and wonder, although you’d by no means guess that by the best way it’s typically portrayed by non-Nebraskans. Sure, there’s a number of corn right here, too, and so they even named the most well-liked soccer crew the ‘cornhuskers,’ however that doesn’t imply it’s all we now have.
Anyway, right here’s the purpose. All of the pictures in at present’s publish have been taken OUTSIDE Nebraska. I had a lot of alternatives to journey final 12 months – many whereas following my ultramarathoning spouse round for coaching runs and races. Typically gentle and alternative lined up properly sufficient for me to do some pictures on these journeys. Listed below are a few of my favourite 2023 pictures from these excursions.
A miner bee (Anthophora abrupta) on spider milkweed (Asclepias viridis) at Osage Hills State Park. Because of Mike Arduser for figuring out the bee for me. I discovered the milkweed by myself.Yucca (Yucca glauca) and dawn on the Loess Hills Wildlife Administration Space in western Iowa.Yellow flax blossom (Linum rigidum?) on the Loess Hills Wildlife Administration SpaceSpider (Larinia borealis) and prey. Loess Hills Wildlife Administration SpaceInexperienced milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora). Loess Hills Wildlife Administration SpaceYucca (Yucca glauca) and dawn on the Loess Hills Wildlife Administration space in western Iowa.Coreopsis flowers on the White Rock Conservancy in Iowa.Reconstructed prairie filled with pale purple coneflower (Echinacea pallida) and white wild indigo (Baptisia alba) throughout a North American Prairie Convention Area journey to land owned and restored by Jon Judson.Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) and pale purple coneflower (Echinacea pallida) throughout a North American Prairie Convention Area journey to land owned and restored by Jon Judson.Widespread checkered skipper (butterfly) at Wilson Lake, KansasMayfly at Wilson Lake, KansasColumbine and different wildflowers within the Flat Tops Wilderness in ColoradoWildflowers (Arnica sp?) within the Flat Tops Wilderness in ColoradoWildflowers rising out of a rocky cliff within the Flat Tops Wilderness in ColoradoOak bushes and rocks close to Lake Murray in OklahomaA wheel bug at Konza Prairie Organic Station within the Flint Hills of KansasMountaineering path at Konza Prairie Organic Station within the Flint Hills of Kansas
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About Chris Helzer
Chris Helzer is the Director of Science for The Nature Conservancy in Nebraska. His important position is to judge and seize classes from the Conservancy’s land administration and restoration work after which share these classes with different landowners – each non-public and public. As well as, Chris works to boost consciousness in regards to the significance of prairies and their conservation by his writing, pictures, and shows to numerous teams.
Chris can also be the creator of “The Ecology and Administration of Prairies within the Central United States”, revealed by the College of Iowa Press. He lives in Aurora, Nebraska together with his spouse Kim and their youngsters.
