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Tag Archives: cattle grazing
Regal Fritillary Butterflies in Burned and Grazed Prairie
We’ve been conducting field surveys of regal fritillary butterflies for the last three years. During that time, we’ve learned a lot about how those butterflies are responding our prairie management and restoration work. So far, there are two overwhelming lessons … Continue reading
Posted in Prairie Insects, Prairie Management, Prairie Natural History, Prairie Photography, Prairie Restoration/Reconstruction
Tagged butterfly, cattle grazing, controlled burn, fire, fire and insects, fire impacts on insects, managing prairies, patch-burn grazing, prairie management, prescribed fire, production, rare butterflies, regal fritillary, response of butterflies to fire, tallgrass prairie, viola sororia
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Photo of the Week – April 21, 2011
Spring is the time for early wildflowers, cool rain showers, and northward-migrating birds. It’s also the time during which smooth brome and other invasive cool-season grasses get their annual jump on the competition. Suppressing invasive grasses and allowing native grasses and forbs … Continue reading
Cascading Impacts from Prairie Management – Fire, Cows, Mice, and Prairie Clover
Several years ago, I was walking through one of our restored (reconstructed) prairies in early August, scouting for prairie clover seed harvest sites with one my technicians. About a week earlier, we’d seen an abundance of prairie clover blooming in … Continue reading
Posted in General, Prairie Management, Prairie Natural History, Prairie Plants, Prairie Restoration/Reconstruction
Tagged cattle grazing, conservation, dalea purpurea, grassland, management impacts, mice, patch-burn grazing, prairie, prairie clover, prairie management, prescribed fire, small mammals
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