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Using Grazing to Combat Invasive Species
By David Crites, Niobrara Valley Preserve Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy Grazing is an important tool in managing grasslands and can be used to effectively limit dominant grasses from eliminating many forbs from a healthy prairie. While managing grazing on … Continue reading
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Tagged bison grazing, David Crites, grazing cattails, Niobrara Valley Preserve
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Queen Anne’s Lace, exotic but not invasive
By Bill Kleiman Daucus carota, Queen Anne’s Lace. Wilhelm and Rericha in Flora of the Chicago Region point out to us that Daucus means carrot. And of course carota means carrot. So a carrot’s carrot. If you dig up the … Continue reading
GRN 2025 Workshop Schedule
September 10-11, 2025 in Lawrence Kansas Registration is full as of early August. Sorry. Overview: Small remnant prairies in eastern Kansas host exceptional levels of plant diversity, and the combination of conservation and working lands create heterogeneity on the landscape, … Continue reading
Testing shows confounding results. A late spring application of clethodim on mature Reed Canary Grass did not work, but then a second round of clethodim did work.
By Bill Kleiman This is an update on an earlier post. It is good to do simple monitoring or testing to see if a weed treatment you are using works. I will describe the simple way I tested a herbicide … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Kleiman, grass herbicide, invasive plant, Phalaris arundinacea, reed canary grass
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Stump Grinder – Review
Mike Saxton – Manager of Ecological Restoration and Land Stewardship – Shaw Nature Reserve – Gray Summit, MO Stump grinders are one of those tools that you don’t use often and when you do use one…you sometimes have to re-learn … Continue reading
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Tagged equipment, Fecon, implements, logging, Mike Saxton, stump grinder
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Overseeding and Disturbance in a Tallgrass Prairie
By: Bill Kleiman – Director Nachusa Grasslands, Elizabeth Bach – Research Scientist Nachusa Grasslands, Elizabeth Becker – Doctoral Student SDSU / UC Davis Joint Doctoral Program in Ecology Restoring any ecosystem is extremely difficult and getting it right on the … Continue reading
When to mow sweet clover to control it
By Bill Kleiman Yellow and white sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis and M alba) are on the invasive weed list of many natural areas managers. The plants are biennial, so on year two they bolt, bloom, and produce a lot of … Continue reading
Testing shows confounding results. A late spring application of clethodim on mature Reed Canary Grass did not work, but then a second round of clethodim did work.
By Bill Kleiman This is an update on an earlier post. It is good to do simple monitoring or testing to see if a weed treatment you are using works. I will describe the simple way I tested a herbicide … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Kleiman, grass herbicide, invasive plant, Phalaris arundinacea, reed canary grass
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Spring beauty, spring clean up and biological pollution
By Bill Kleiman Spring beauty are one of the early wildflowers to come up in our oak woods. They are crazy beautiful making us thankful for spring. Spring cleaning. Above is old junk dumped in a ditch that we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Kleiman, Friendship Prairie, invasive weed, litter clean up
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Nachusa Grasslands Prescribed Fire Program Annual Report
By Bill Kleiman Below are a few highlights of our annual report. You can read the entire report with many more photos here: nachusa_grasslands_annual_fire_report_2024_2025_opt.pdf The bottom line: I have been walking around units we have burned this year to see … Continue reading
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