Unearthing Remnant Sedge Meadow Restores Lost Wetland Functions
Author: Matthew C. Parsons, M.S. (Senior Ecologist – Eco-Resource Consulting, Inc.) The B. Bruce Krier Conservancy read more
Archive for the ‘Practitioner Posts’ Category
Restoration and the Season of Migrations…
Over the weekend we celebrated International Migratory Bird Day with a hike around one of the read more
Why we shouldn’t take seeds for granted…
This interesting essay was recently posted in the Annals of Botany blog examines the problem of read more
The Tanager and the Oak
Here in the Midwest the arrival of spring migratory birds in happening in earnest. Birders read more
Restoration for pollinators in Cedar Rapids…
Could this happen in your town? Cedar Rapids, Iowa moves to enhance 1000 acres of public read more
Florida (restoration) road trip, anyone?
Who wouldn't like a road trip to Florida? Our good friends at the Southeastern Chapter of the read more
Turning a liability into an asset: a case study of restoration from the ground up…
How many of us have encountered potential restoration sites that seemed to have some potential, read more
Restoration – in my town…
During the course of this summer I have enjoyed seeing a restoration project - that read more
Throwback Thursday: Creating and Maintaining Sand Islands at Wolf Lake
Originally published in our September 2011 newsletter. By Jon Dittmar, Cardno JFNew Wolf Lake is a 3.2 km² read more
Restoration and Rememberance
One of the most common pieces of advice I have heard about writing is to read more
Throwback Thursday: 100 Sites for 100 Years: A Chicago Wildernewss Land Management Research Program
This post was originally posted in our January 2009 newsletter. by Lauren Umek and Liam Heneghan, Institute read more
Soil Microbes in Ecological Restoration
By restoration scientists Elizabeth Bach, Jonathan Bauer, and Liz Koziol Increasingly, ecological restoration goals include belowground read more
Advice on Goldenrod Control?
I manage a 3-acre prairie planting on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis (http://legacy.butler.edu/herbarium/prairies/). The read more
State Roundup
Happy Friday everyone! Restoration practitioners in the Midwest-Great Lakes region have been busy planning, implementing, read more
Biological Invasions Research Project
Alien Futures is a new research project collecting and examining issues that may affect the read more
The Promise of Restoration
by Steve Glass The science and practice of restoration ecology is a forward-looking, multifaceted discipline that read more
Photo Essay on Restoration of Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid in Wisconsin
by Steve Glass, The Restoration Ecology Lab Restoration Ecology in Action This photo sequence documents a case read more
Celebrating Biodiversity: Native Seeds in the Midwest
by Aaron Egan, Genesis Nursery Milkweed is most associated with monarch butterflies and is growing in read more
Community Involvement to Address a Long-standing Invasive Species Problem: Aspects of Civic Ecology in Practice
by Rebecca Dolan, Friesner Herbarium and Center for Urban Ecology, Butler University. SER MWGL Indiana read more
Putting the Piece of the Prairie Back Together in Illinois – Bison in the Nachusa Grassland
by Roger Anderson In Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold described the occurrence of a single compass read more
HELPING MICHIGAN’S ONLY VENOMOUS SNAKE
"You do what?!" people ask me after I tell them I work to protect rattlesnakes read more