[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Knife Edge Prairie page.]

3/16/2011  The point

3/16/2011

5/6/2011 We finally mowed the prairie again.

5/6/2011  The dead apple tree that we’ve been photographing for years has finally fallen down and nearly disappeared.

5/6/2011   Mowed path out to the point

9/1/2011   False Boneset

9/1/2011

9/1/2011  Monarch on Rough Blazing Star

9/1/2011   Sunflowers on the west-facing slope where I’ve girdled the birches.  There’s much more sun reaching the ground now.

10/21/2011   View of Center Valley from the point

11/4/2011   False Boneset (Kuhnia eupatorioides)

11/4/2011   Little Bluestem