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Tag Archives: prairies
Why A Warming Climate Is Making This Spring So Cold (… and Last Spring So Warm)
Melting sea ice might not seem important to those of us living in the middle of a continent. It is. Weather and climate have always been complicated and difficult to understand, so it’s no wonder that climate change is a … Continue reading
Changing Our Focus
Last Friday night, I had the honor to be part of an event called the Conservation Jam, hosted by The Center for Great Plains Studies and The Nature Conservancy, and attended by about 300 people. I was one of 15 … Continue reading
Posted in Prairie Animals, Prairie Insects, Prairie Management, Prairie Natural History, Prairie Photography, Prairie Plants
Tagged center for great plains studies, conservation, conservation jam, grasslands, great plains, importance of bugs, importance of insects, importance of plants, prairies, the nature conservancy, thee minute presentation
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Correction – Tree Invasion
Thank you to a couple people, particularly Dan Carter, for pointing out an inaccuracy in my last post about woody expansion in prairies. In my second paragraph, I said that woody plants had expanded in Konza Prairie (Kansas) under annual … Continue reading
Posted in General, Prairie Management, Prairie Natural History
Tagged correction, fire, konza prairie, prairies, tree invasion, woody plants
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New Information on Tree Invasion in Prairies
One of the biggest challenges of prairie management today is the suppression of woody invaders. Both native and non-native woody species can spread rapidly in prairie, making it difficult to maintain the open grassy habitat that most prairie species depend … Continue reading
Posted in General, Prairie Management, Prairie Natural History, Prairie Plants
Tagged brush, carbon, climate change, clonal shrubs, cornus drummundii, deep roots, dogwood, fire, grasslands, kansas state university, konza prairie, nitrogen, prairies, rhus glabra, root depth, shrub invasion, soil moisture, spread, sumac, tree invasion, woody plants
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