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About Grassland Restoration Network blog

Bill Kleiman, Julianne Mason, and Mike Saxton publish this blog. Bill's daytime job is director of Nachusa Grasslands with The Nature Conservancy. Julianne works for the Forest Preserve District of Will County. Mike Saxton works for the Missouri Botanical Garden at their Shaw Nature Reserve. We are looking for guest authors on various topics of grassland habitat restoration. Contact us with your ideas.

Schedule for GRN 2017 workshop at Konza

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

GRASSLAND RESTORATION NETWORK WORKSHOP 2017 Konza Prairie Biological Station and Long Term Ecological Research Site Manhattan, Kansas   July 11th   12:00 pm            The Grassland Restoration Network (Chris Helzer) Konza Prairie Welcome Presentation (John Blair)   1:00 pm               … Continue reading →

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Registration open!!! July 11-12, 2017 Grassland Restoration Network Workshop

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Join us at Konza Prairie Biological Station in Manhattan, KS for overview and field presentations on long-term plot and watershed-level studies in grassland ecology. This year’s workshop will focus how science at this National Science Foundation-funded Long Term Ecological Research … Continue reading →

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GRN July 11-12, 2017 Konza registration delays

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Sorry, we meant registration to be open by now but are having some registration/administrative hangups. Any day now registration will open.

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30 year fire report for Nachusa Grasslands

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Dear Colleagues: The hyperlink to our report summarizes thirty years of fire at Nachusa Grasslands.  it also describes the current fire year.  Share wit your colleagues. Click to access nachusa_annual_fire_report_2016_2017.pdf The July 11-12 GRN workshop at Konza will open registration … Continue reading →

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Brush mowing

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

This early spring has us doing prescribed fire and the winter work of mowing brush.  Below is a before and after of some brush mowing I did yesterday.  The light brush is invasive bush honeysuckle thickets, with hundreds of waist … Continue reading →

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GRN Workshop July 11-12, 2017 at Konza

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Save the Date! Grassland Restoration Network Workshop July 11-12, 2017 Join us at Konza Prairie Biological Station in Manhattan, KS for overview and field presentations on long-term plot and watershed-level studies in grassland ecology. This year’s workshop will focus how … Continue reading →

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Mowing and pulling honeysuckle

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

My comments on mowing honeysuckle are similar to fire.  You can’t kill honeysuckle roots by mowing it.  But you can reduce a huge shrub to a tiny re-sprouting shrub that can then be easily treated with herbicide. Mowing down the … Continue reading →

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Foliar application to honeysuckle

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

I have used foliar application on honeysuckle in the following manner.  On a fire break in a ruderal area with no native plants I had mowed down all sorts and sizes of honeysuckle and other woody plants.  The fire break … Continue reading →

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Basal bark application final part 5: Helpful tips

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Above is the cover and title from a management note we published in Ecological Restoration.  That was a lot of work. Some tips to apply basal bark herbicide: Be careful applying these mixes in quality vegetation areas.  It is not … Continue reading →

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Basal bark application part 4

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Previously I described success in killing honeysuckle with October and May applications when the leaves were on the stems of the shrub.  Here are a few kill counts we have from dormant season applications with leaves off: March 6 and … Continue reading →

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