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Crafting Wetlands—2023 Crew Planting
Written by Jacob Churulo, Nachusa Grasslands Resident Fellow Every year, Nachusa’s crew plantings embody our long-standing commitment to restoring high quality prairie habitat. In 2023, the combined seed picking efforts of the summer and fall restoration crews culminated into this … Continue reading
Land Abandonment, Succession and Restoration: The Wolf Run Grasslands Restoration Project at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Shaw Nature Reserve.
by Mike Saxton and Calvin Maginel This article was originally posted in https://mbgecologicalrestoration.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/land-abandonment-succession-and-restoration-the-wolf-run-grassland-restoration-project-at-the-missouri-botanical-gardens-shaw-nature-reserve/ Since 1950, over 1-billon acres of agricultural land have been abandoned worldwide. In certain landscape contexts, passive recovery of high levels of native biodiversity in abandoned fields … Continue reading
Grass-Specific Herbicide Treatment on Heavily Grass-Dominated Prairies
By Alex Conley and Dr. Andrew Kaul, Missouri Botanical Garden’s Shaw Nature Reserve Shaw Nature Reserve (SNR) is a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden, located 35 miles west of St. Louis and containing roughly 300 acres of restored tallgrass … Continue reading
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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More lessons learned planting prairie
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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Tagged Bill Kleiman, prairie planting, prairie restoration, prairie seed, prairie seed mix
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Pasture to prairie seeding experiment – initial thoughts
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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Tagged Bernie Buchholz, Bill Kleiman, clethodim, pasture restoration, prairie restoration, prairie seed
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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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Seed Hammer Mill
by Mike Saxton, Shaw Nature Reserve, Missouri Botanic Garden Seed collection is a big part of the restoration strategy at Shaw Nature Reserve. Last year we brought in around 750lbs of milled seed from 278 species with a crew of … Continue reading
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33 years of community led grasslands restoration in NW Cook County, IL
By the Poplar Creek Prairie Stewards This is the fourth of four introductions to our upcoming field trips for our GRN workshop August 16 and 17. Registration for this year’s GRN closes on 7/31, make sure to get your spot … Continue reading
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