Mima Mounds

This weekend was very nice and relaxing. I spent the majority of time outside reading on the grass. The weather was in the high 70's all day, however now its cooling down and will probably rain soon. Today i went on a class trip to Mima Mounds located 30 minutes from campus. This place is very sacred and also highly valued by ecologists. Prairies cover the land and consist of wildflowers and wild grass growing on these mounds. There are many theories about how these occurred such as: gophers over a large period of time piled glacier dirt, glacier melting and runoff, and Native American interaction. Native Americans used to burn this area every few year to fertilize the soil and maintain the prairie. The park rangers perform controlled burns of this area every few years to keep this unique state. Unfortunately we were only able to spend a 2 hours here, yet it was still very interesting. After we got back i had some lunch and then went to yoga. Yoga only had one other person today so it was pretty much a private and very intense class.