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April 2015 Monthly Archives


2014 Nurturing Pollinators

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A prairie management priority! The vitality of our prairie pollinators can be a force multiplier to strengthen our prairie preserves and adjacent agriculture fields.  A recent study by Emory University researcher Berry Brosi and UCal […read more]





Prairie Resources

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Historically huge and expansive, currently diminished, fragmented and threatened Original Extent (pre European contact ) An area of about 17.5 million acres of prairie and 5.2 million acres of mixed savannas extended from the northwestern […read more]


Prairie Power

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Huge economic benefits but little market value Prairies provide society with many services which deliver huge economic benefits but unfortunately have little or no market values. It is equally clear that technological fixes for “lost […read more]


Prairie Pathways

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Discerning the path to sustainability This is a path finding effort to focus attention on some of the best knowledge on how native grass agriculture contribute significantly to solving pressing national issues of overdependence on […read more]