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Birchmeier not spraying right

Posted on November 16, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman I have seen this issue before.  A repair tag on the Birchmeier that says “does not pump right”  or “does not spray right”.  Indeed, when I tried this pack it would only pump one stroke and then … Continue reading →

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The power and limits of photo monitoring

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman Take a look at this one point on the MRCP Hill Site on four dates. The first photo looks north, then the next photo looks at the ground. What I see in these photos: We did a … Continue reading →

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Ornate box turtle emergence

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Elizabeth Bach and Devin Edmonds Prescribed fire is an essential management tool in grassland systems. It can help suppress invasive species, particularly woody species, and maintain native plant diversity. Some plants and animals thrive in recently burned habitat, others … Continue reading →

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September, 2024 GRN workshop scheduled to be at Nachusa Grasslands

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Bill Kleiman We don’t have the specific dates yet, but September, 2024 looks to be the month for our GRN workshop in Franklin Grove Illinois, about two hours west of Chicago. We last hosted the GRN back in 2014. … Continue reading →

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Herbicide Treatments to Reed Canary Grass – Clethodim vs. Glyphosate – Follow-Up Observations

Posted on September 21, 2023 by jmasonfpdwc

By: Julianne Mason, Restoration Program Coordinator, Forest Preserve District of Will County Five years ago, my coworker and I put in some test plots to compare the effectiveness of spraying reed canary grass with glyphosate, a non-selective herbicide, compared to … Continue reading →

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Lespedeza: friend and foe

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Bill Kleiman Our area has five species in the genus Lespedeza, and two are invasive. Here is a quick summary of the five species and a link at the end to a lengthier set of images with pointers. Lespedeza … Continue reading →

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Resources on prairie seed

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Izabella Redlinski, Deputy Director of Resource Management, Forest Preserves of Cook County [Izabella was at our GRN workshop at Windom Minnesota and sent me some resource links related to topics we were discussing – BK] Paper by R. Pizza … Continue reading →

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GRN Minnesota workshop success

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Bill Kleiman Much of the nation was sweltering this week and so were we in Windom Minnesota with around 70 who gathered. We had folks from the North Star State, and Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana, the Dakotas, Iowa, Wisconsin and … Continue reading →

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More lessons learned planting prairie

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman SHRUBS: We want some of our prairies free of shrubs for various birds and other wildlife that want prairie without shrubs everywhere.  We will end up with lots of shrublands in the future as there is a … Continue reading →

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Pasture to prairie seeding experiment – initial thoughts

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman If you are trying to turn a low diversity cool season grass pasture into high diversity prairie should you just seed the recently prescribed burnt sod?  Or first apply glyphosate herbicide or grass herbicide, then burn it, … Continue reading →

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