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Shaw Nature Reserve – 2026 GRN Workshop – Job Opening

Mike Saxton – Shaw Nature Reserve – Gray Summit, MO – Divison of the Missouri Botanical Garden As we come off a successful and engaging 2025 Workshop with the Kansas Biological Survey, KU Field Station, Johnson County Park and Recreation … Continue reading

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2025 GRN workshop success in Lawrence Kansas

by Bill Kleiman About 75 attended our 20th GRN workshop from a diversity of groups and geographies. Sara Baer had opening remarks where she thanked us practitioners for doing and sharing lessons learned. Then Helen Alexander gave a talk on … Continue reading

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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

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Save the Date! Grassland Restoration Network Workshop

September 10–11, 2025 Join us in Lawrence, Kansas, to share insights from grassland restoration work, research, and outreach while experiencing this unique ecotone region. Small remnant prairies in eastern Kansas host exceptional levels of plant diversity, and the combination of … Continue reading

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Weed management

By Bill Kleiman, Director Nachusa Grasslands, TNC The recent GRN workshop was all tour based, with 5 themed tours that ran concurrently every two hours over two days. All participants could go on all 5 tours. I led the tour … Continue reading

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Lively Tours of Nachusa Prairie Plantings

By Bernie Buchholz, Volunteer at Nachusa Grasslands The recent GRN conference at Nachusa Grasslands included “Prairie Tours” of new plantings and remnant restorations. It was a very experienced group with about 90% of attendees having either planted a prairie in … Continue reading

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GRN Workshop at Nachusa Grasslands September 10 &11, 2024

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 … Continue reading

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September, 2024 GRN workshop scheduled to be at Nachusa Grasslands

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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GRN Minnesota workshop success

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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A Tale of Two Plantings

By Jeffrey Zajac, Area Wildlife Manager, Minnesota DNR They have the best of plants, they have the worst of plants…  This August 22st and 23nd, 2023 the Grassland Restoration Network workshop comes to southwest Minnesota. Registration begins early July. On … Continue reading

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