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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.

Basal bark application part 3

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

My daughter and wife and I have been doing field experiments and stewardship for years.  We have experience in marking and treating honeysuckle.  In late May of 2014 the three of us treated and paint marked about 250 honeysuckle shrubs … Continue reading →

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Basal bark application part 2

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

I sometime hear colleagues say basal bark on invasive honeysuckle “sort of” works.  I find basal bark with Garlon4 kills nearly all of the time. Note in the photo below the blue tree marking paint I applied to the stem. … Continue reading →

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Basal bark application on honeysuckle part 1

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Basal bark works.  Applying brush herbicide with a mineral oil carrier allows the herbicide to be sprayed on the bark.  The mix absorbs into the basal cells of the bark where all the action occurs in a tree or shrub.  … Continue reading →

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Fire does not kill the roots of invasive honeysuckle

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Fire top kills honeysuckle, but does not kill the root.  We have burned our Bennett woods unit annually for about a dozen years.   The fires top kills most of the honeysuckle, with some plants not affected because they were next … Continue reading →

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Managing invasive Amur honeysuckle

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

In Plants of the Chicago Region, Swink and Wilhelm describe invasive honeysuckle just right: “It would be difficult to exaggerate the weedy potential of this shrub.”   Invasive honeysuckle does very well in savannas, edges of woods, and open fields.  It … Continue reading →

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Fire break preparation

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

I used our Terex P110 skid loader with a Fecon flail brush head to open up an old fire break that had not been touched for perhaps a decade.  Below is the photo before and then about 30 minutes after.  … Continue reading →

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GRN Workshop a success

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

About 100 attended our recent workshop in the Platte River area of Nebraska.  Thank you to Mardel Jasnowski, Chris Helzer, Bill Whitney and their peers for hosting us.  For two days we were outside hiking around prairie restorations, and sharing … Continue reading →

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GRN Workshop Registration

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

2016GRN_Agenda The 2016 Grassland Restoration Network Workshop will be in Aurora and Wood River, Nebraska on September 13-14. This year’s workshop is hosted by The Nature Conservancy and Prairie Plains Resource Institute, with additional funding assistance from Pheasants Forever. The … Continue reading →

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GRN workshop September 13 & 14, 2016

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Preliminary Agenda Grassland Restoration Network- 2016 Workshop September 13-14, 2016 – Aurora/Wood River, Nebraska Co-Hosted by The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies and Prairie Plains Resource Institute September 13 9am-11:30am – Optional walking tours of prairie restorations in Aurora, Nebraska … Continue reading →

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foliar spray of shrubs leads to off target kill

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Photos above show a honeysuckle shrub I carefully sprayed while doing some other weed work. The second photo is about 20 days later. The shrub died but I show this photo to demonstrate the area of the off target damage. … Continue reading →

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