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Tag Archives: woody plants
Killing Small Trees in Prairies – A Helpful Tool
One of the greatest challenges of prairie management, especially in small eastern prairies, is managing the invasion of small deciduous trees. Most prairie species (plant and animal alike) thrive best in open treeless habitats. Encroaching trees can fragment large prairies into smaller pieces, … Continue reading
Posted in Prairie Management, Prairie Plants, Prairie Restoration/Reconstruction
Tagged controlling trees, grassland, how to control invasive trees, how to kill trees, how to kill trees in prairie, invasive species, invasive trees, prairie, prairie management, range management, suppressing trees, trees in prairies, woody plants
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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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