Stephen R. Jones

Stephen R. Jones is a Boulder, Colorado environmental consultant and breeding bird ecologist. He was the 2013 recipient of The Ronald A. Ryder Award for Distinguished Service to Colorado Field Ornithology. He is the author of The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal, 2000, Nebraska Press edition 2006, which has received stellar reviews and is frequently cited. He is also leading co-author of the 2004 Peterson Field Guide Series book, A Field Guide to the North American Prairie. The New York Times interviewed him for a June 2004 story, "American Prairie Overlooked No More."

A distaff side great-grandfather settled in Lincoln during the 1880s and operated McFall's saddle and harness store. One of his customers was William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, then a resident of North Platte. Jones' paternal great-great grandparents homesteaded in the Haigler area during the 1890s. His paternal great-grandfather L.O. "Orville" Jones was the founder and President of Lincoln's Epworth Assembly (similar to Chautauqua), whose grounds later became Epworth Park, and even later a part of Wilderness Park. L.O Jones was also a leading member of the Nebraska Prohibition Party. The author himself is a Colorado resident, but is included in the database for having written an important book about the Sandhills region of Nebraska.

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Places Lived

Boulder, Colorado (2006)

Author Of

Nonfiction

Keywords

Nature writer; Ecology; Sandhills; Great Plains; Prairie biology; Natural History; Ornithology

Occupation

Teacher and Environmental Consultant

Places Worked

Boulder Valley School District, CO

Bibliography

The Last Prairie, a Sandhills Journal 2000
Colorado Nature Almanac, (with Ruth Carol Cushman), 1998
The North American Prairie. 2004
Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky : Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis. 2022.

Article series for Nebraska Life titled "Nebraska Prairie Renaissance."

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