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North America's grasslands once stretched from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and across this considerable space different prairie types evolved to express the sum of their particular longitude and latitude, soils, landforms, and aspect. This prairie guide is your roadmap to what remains of this varied and majestic landscape.
Suzanne Winckler's goal is to encourage travelers to get off the highways, out of their cars, and onto North America's last remaining prairies. She makes this adventure as easy as possible by providing exact driving directions to the more than three hundred sites in her guide. She also includes information about size, management, phone numbers, and outstanding characteristics for every prairie site and provides readers with a thorough list of recommended readings and Web sites.
The scope of the guide is impressive. It encompasses prairies found within national grasslands, parks, forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, state parks, preserves, and natural areas and on numerous working ranches in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. A series of maps locate the prairies both geographically and by name.
From \"the largest restoration project within the historic range of tallgrass prairie\" at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa to Big Bend National Park in Texas, where \"the Chisos Mountains, completely surrounded by the park, rise up majestically from the Chihuahuan Desert floor,\" Winckler celebrates the dramatic expanses of untouched prairie, the crown jewels of prairie reconstruction and restoration, and the neglected remnants that deserve to be treasured.
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Sacred Places North America
This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed, along with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. Detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions are also included.
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Canoeing the Churchill
\"Outstanding. Its combination of historical material, maps, photos, and travelogue brings the fur trade era alive. Seldom has the past and the present been brought together so successfully.\" -George Melnyk, University of Calgary \"The reader is exposed to hundreds of points of interest, historical rock paintings, landmarks, campsites, local histories, and folklore...[the book] will tell any canoeist or adventurer almost all they need to know.\" -James Winkel, Saskatchewan History An invaluable resource for paddlers preparing to face the challenges of Canada's old fur trade highway, Canoeing the Churchill is also an exhilarating trek into the past for the \"armchair voyageur.\" With routes for both beginners and experts, Canoeing the Churchill provides practical \"on the water advice\" for the entire 1,100 km route--from Methy Portage to Cumberland House.Canoeing the Churchill \"will introduce the beauty of the north and its rich cultural heritage to readers from all parts of the world.\" -Keith Goulet, Cumberland House Cree Nation
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Fodor's the complete guide to the national parks of the West
A guide to national parks in the West providing information on attractions, accommodations, restaurants, features, and activities for each location, as well as tips on when to go and how to save money.
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Advancing the Care Experience for Patients Receiving Palliative Care as They Transition From Hospital to Home (ACEPATH): Phase 2 of Codesigning an Intervention to Improve Hospital‐to‐Home Transitions for Patients and Family Caregivers
Background Although many people nearing the end of life wish to die at home, many patients experience re‐hospitalisation and hospital death. No end‐of‐life hospital‐to‐home interventions have been developed with patients and caregivers, and none have been tested in Canada. Through an iterative, participatory design approach, we codesigned an intervention in partnership with potential users of the final intervention: patients, family caregivers (FCs) and healthcare providers (HCPs). Objective This study (ACEPATH) aimed to use a patient, FC and HCP engaged codesign process to continue to iterate and refine an intervention for transition from hospital to home in preparation for a pilot implementation. Methods The codesign process consisted of: (1) Development of codesign workshop (CDW) materials; (2) CDWs with patients and/or their FCs, who iterated our team's previously developed checklists and reference materials; (3) Low‐fidelity prototyping sessions with hospital and community HCPs, who provided feedback on the low‐fidelity prototype, the guidebook (that combined the refined checklists and guides) and identified HCPs to facilitate the guidebook; and (4) High‐fidelity prototyping sessions entailed simulated interactions between an HCP and a patient/FC using the intervention, accompanied by discussion for feedback. Results Participants identified several areas for refinement to enhance the relevance, clarity and acceptability of the guidebook intervention. Patients and FCs refined and organised questions into specific ‘moments’ that would be helpful for conversations with HCPs during their transition home. HCPs identified social workers, hospital home care coordinators and community home care coordinators as the best fit for facilitating completion of the guidebook at three moments (preparing to leave the hospital, immediately before discharge and getting comfortable at home). Conclusions We successfully codesigned a guidebook for hospital‐to‐home transitions that was amenable to patients, FCs and HCPs. The next steps will entail piloting the guidebook to evaluate its acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, costs and fidelity. Patient or Public Contribution Patients and FCs who had lived/living experiences with hospital‐to‐home transitions near the end of life participated in codesign workshops and high‐fidelity prototyping sessions. We used codesign to ensure the final intervention was aligned with participants' needs and experiences and would hopefully improve aspects of the hospital‐to‐home transition that are important to them.
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