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State Wildlife Grant - T-37-R

Project Overview
Project Title
Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction
Target Species
All tallgrass prairie species
Timeline
May 2013 -- April 2016
Investigators
Kristine Askerooth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Project Description

Most of the original estimated 60 million acres of tallgrass prairie was plowed for agricultural production within a short time after European settlement. Samson and Knopf (1994) estimate there has been a 99.9% decline in area of tallgrass prairie in North Dakota. The goal of the proposed project is to reconstruct grassland habitat that contains native grasses and forbs. This will be accomplished by seeding native perennial herbaceous mixtures on formerly cropped priority WPAs in the Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge (NWR).

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