Jill Haukos has lived on the prairie her whole life, starting in South Dakota and then moving to west Texas and then finally, the Flint Hills of Kansas. With her job at the Konza Prairie Biological Station she has had the opportunity to combine her two great loves: nature and teaching. She and her husband Dave have one daughter, Katie, and they all enjoy life on the prairie.Joyce Mihran Turley has illustrated many children's books depicting unique ecosystems, including two other books in the LTER Schoolyard Series, One Night in the Everglades and And The Tide Comes In: Exploring a Coastal Salt Marsh. She lives with her husband Rick in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Jill Haukos has lived on the prairie her whole life, starting in South Dakota and then moving to west Texas and then finally, the Flint Hills of Kansas. With her job at the Konza Prairie Biological Station she has had the opportunity to combine her two great loves: nature and teaching. She and her husband Dave have one daughter, Katie, and they all enjoy life on the prairie.Joyce Mihran Turley has illustrated many children's books depicting unique ecosystems, including two other books in the LTER Schoolyard Series, One Night in the Everglades and And The Tide Comes In: Exploring a Coastal Salt Marsh. She lives with her husband Rick in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Jill Haukos has lived on the prairie her whole life, starting in South Dakota and then moving to west Texas and then finally, the Flint Hills of Kansas. With her job at the Konza Prairie Biological Station she has had the opportunity to combine her two great loves: nature and teaching. She and her husband Dave have one daughter, Katie, and they all enjoy life on the prairie.Joyce Mihran Turley has illustrated many children's books depicting unique ecosystems, including two other books in the LTER Schoolyard Series, One Night in the Everglades and And The Tide Comes In: Exploring a Coastal Salt Marsh. She lives with her husband Rick in Fort Collins, Colorado.