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Restoring Cottonwoods to the Missouri River – Part 1
Last week, I had an experience that doesn’t come often to a prairie ecologist. I participated in a tree planting project. Well ok, we weren’t exactly planting trees, but we were laying the...
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Restoring Cottonwoods to the Missouri River (Part 2)
Back in February I wrote a short post about our cottonwood tree planting efforts on the Missouri River. Here’s a more detailed description of that project, including some early (and interesting)...
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A Prairie Ecologist’s Perspective on Arbor Day
Today is National Arbor Day – a holiday initiated by J. Sterling Morton right here in my home state of Nebraska. The idea of Arbor Day is to encourage the planting of trees. However, as a prairie...
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Ruminations on Tree Planting and Prairie Conservation
Trees are great, but trees in and around prairies can negatively impact habitat quality for many grassland plant and animal species and provide points of introduction for invasive species....
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