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Grants and Awards Restoration News Midwest Blog Restoration Research Student's Section

Student Awards!

The Society for Ecological Restoration, Midwest Great Lakes Chapter is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s student restoration research and practice awards. This was our second student research award and our first student practice award. We received many...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – THE EFROYMSON RESTORATION AT KANKAKEE SANDS: A LANDSCAPE APPROACH FOR GRASSLAND AND SAVANNA CONSERVATION IN INDIANA

This post was initially published in September 2008. A landscape-scale restoration project is underway in northwestern Indiana to reestablish a semblance of the original habitat mosaic at an appropriate ecological scale. The Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is attempting...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – A RESTORATION CHALLENGE OF A LIFETIME: THE SENECA MEADOWS PROJECT

This post was initially published in December 2012. What is your virtual field of dreams for restoration? To put it more concretely, what have you always wanted in a restoration project? • A client committed to going the extra mile...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – LINCOLN MEMORIAL GARDEN – A DESIGNED LANDSCAPE AND RESTORATION

This post was initially published in the SER MWGL newsletter in September 2011. Seventy-five years ago while Lake Springfield was being constructed as a depression-era Work Progress Administration (WPA) project, a local civic leader, Harriet Knudson, asked the City of...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – A SHORT NOTE ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF RESTORATION

This post was initially published in the SER MWGL Newsletter in September 2013 In preparation for the upcoming SER 2013 World Conference (www.ser2013.org), I have been thinking about the role of history in restoration practice. Session organizer Paddy Woodworth asked...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Restoration Research

SELECTED CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER 2014 ISSUE OF RESTORATION ECOLOGY

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS S. C. Rossiter, M. A. Ahlering, B. J. Goodwin and K. A. Yurkonis. Seed bank effects on recovery after disturbance in reconstructed tallgrass prairies. A. J. Mills and R. M. Cowling. How fast can carbon be sequestered when...Read More

President's Corner Restoration News Midwest Blog

IMPROVING COMMUNICATION AND MEMBER INTERACTIONS

The Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (MWGL SER) Board of Directors has been working hard to increase our chapter benefits to members as part of our implementation of the Chapter’s Five Year Strategic Plan. Much of...Read More

Events Regional News

CHAPTER SUPPORT OF THE 2014 NATURAL AREAS CONFERENCE

Earlier, the Midwest-Great Lakes SER Chapter Board of Directors voted to be exhibitors at the 2014 Natural Areas Conference held in Dayton, Ohio from October 15 to October 17, 2014. The Board felt supporting this international conference was important because...Read More

Practitioner Posts Restoration News Midwest Blog Restoration Research

HELPING MICHIGAN’S ONLY VENOMOUS SNAKE

“You do what?!” people ask me after I tell them I work to protect rattlesnakes and their habitats. When I explain that it is the eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus), which is a species of special concern whose population in...Read More

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USE OF FIRE FOR THE RESTORATION OF WILDLIFE COMMUNITIES IN THE NORTHERN LAKE STATES

Land use change and the removal of fire have affected many ecosystems throughout the northern Lake States, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. A number of these ecosystem types, such as mixed-pine forests and open wetlands, are dependent on fire to...Read More

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Welcome Iowa!

We are pleased to announce that the Midwest-Great Lakes (MWGL) Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) is expanding to include Iowa! The MWGL chapter of SER was established in March 2008 and was originally organized to serve members...Read More

Practitioner Posts Restoration News Midwest Blog

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog for the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of the Society of Ecological Restoration! Bear with us while we get comfortable with the technology, but expect blog posts from our president, restoration research, practitioner, arts and humanities, key...Read More