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West Michigan Restoration Tour

West Michigan Restoration Talk and Tour Sponsored by the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of SER Please join the Michigan branch of the MidWest Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) on Friday, October 18th, 1 pm ~...Read More

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Peschel Wins SER-MWGL Student Research Award for 2017

Anna Peschel, a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, won the award for her research which tackles the persistent and challenging question of local adaptation. Peschel said in her research award proposal that she is interested...Read More

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Restoration and the Season of Migrations…

Over the weekend we celebrated International Migratory Bird Day with a hike around one of the Cook County forest preserves, Crabtree Nature Center. It was gratifying to see the ongoing restoration progress at this site – which seems to be getting...Read More

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Why we shouldn’t take seeds for granted…

This interesting essay was recently posted in the Annals of Botany blog examines the problem of seed availability – especially when it applies to restoration activity … Image Credit: USDA – ARSRead More

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Just a Few Days Left to Apply for Student Restoration Research and Practice Grants from SER MWGL

Grant Applications Due This Friday May 5 STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM SER MWGL is pleased to offer a Student Restoration Practice Grant and Student Restoration Research Grant. Applications are typically due in early spring. This year’s Application Deadline: May 5, 2017....Read More

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Restoration for pollinators in Cedar Rapids…

Could this happen in your town? Cedar Rapids, Iowa moves to enhance 1000 acres of public space to benefit pollinators….. Read More

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Student Restoration Research and Practice Grants from SER MWGL

STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM SER MWGL is pleased to offer a Student Restoration Practice Grant and Student Restoration Research Grant. Applications are typically due in early spring. This year’s Application Deadline: May 5, 2017. Awards will be announced by May 31,...Read More

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Soil Microbes in Ecological Restoration

By restoration scientists Elizabeth Bach, Jonathan Bauer, and Liz Koziol Increasingly, ecological restoration goals include belowground ecosystem services including reducing soil erosion, retaining soil nutrients, restoring plant-soil feedbacks, and potentially storing carbon to reduce CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Soil...Read More

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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

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State Roundup

Happy Friday everyone! Restoration practitioners in the Midwest-Great Lakes region have been busy planning, implementing, and celebrating restoration. Check out some links from around the region. Iowa: Iowa Rivers Revival is advocating a statewide river restoration framework to prioritize rivers...Read More

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Biological Invasions Research Project

Alien Futures is a new research project collecting and examining issues that may affect the future global and local management of biological invasions. Horizon scanning is the systematic examination of future potential threats, opportunities and likely future developments. Some horizon scanning...Read More

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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

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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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Application due Nov 1: Ohio Student Research Grant

Another exciting opportunity from Ohio! Due: Nov. 1st: Ohio Invasive Plants Council – Invasive Plants Student Research Grants. Amount: $1,000/project OIPC_GrantProgram_2014,Draft.pdfRead More