By Bill Kleiman

Registration will open in June.

Here is a quick update. We would start the workshop mid-morning September 10 and end mid-afternoon on the 11th. We have limited space so we may not be able to accept all who wish to attend. If you can’t make this workshop, we do plan to re-start our annual one-day open house for resource managers in 2025.

These are the themes of tour discussions we hope to cover. We will limit tour sizes to keep the discussion easy and repeat the tours so you can hear what you like.

• Prairie plantings. We have many very good plantings and some poor ones. Hike through several and discuss lessons learned.
• Brush work and fire. We will look at habitats where we have used frequent fire in combination with brush mowing and basal bark herbicide.
• Hand harvesting seed. We will cover how we map and track our seed harvests. How we dry, store, mill, mix and plant seeds. We will also discuss seed harvesting for savanna and woodland.
• Science. We have a robust science program that we will explain as we look at projects in the field.
• Fire break preparation and operations: We will look at fire break equipment and pumper units in use. We will look at several fire breaks and burn units to discuss what we have learned to help us get a lot of fire on the ground.
• Bison grazing program. What results are we seeing after ten years?
• Volunteer Stewardship and Citizen Science. Tours will have some of our great volunteers as co-leaders and you can hear their viewpoints.

Since we are starting weed season here are a few posts from the past to consider: