Winter's Successful Habitat Improvement Program (HIP) Events - Ice Age Trail Alliance
218 volunteers donated 2,508 service hours to restoring more than 11 acres of oak woodlands, savanna, and prairie!| Ice Age Trail Alliance
For the past several years the foundation has offered a seasonal conservation steward program to accelerate growth for future natural resources professionals. Below, Dawson Porter, a student at Michigan State University, discusses his experience from this summer.| Edward Lowe Foundation
Researchers from Grand Valley State University (GVSU) have been conducting a multi-year study to see how seasonal timing and sequence of prescribed burns may affect restored prairies. This marks the first research in the Great Lakes region to investigate multiple rounds of seasonal burns and compare repetitive fire treatments with alternating ones. “Land managers typically conduct prescribed burns in the...| Edward Lowe Foundation
218 volunteers donated 2,508 service hours to restoring more than 11 acres of oak woodlands, savanna, and prairie!| Ice Age Trail Alliance
Erosion is particularly detrimental to the arid grasslands of eastern Colorado, where vegetation relies heavily on efficient delivery of the little rain it receives. Even drought-tolerant plants will decline in these extreme conditions, leaving the landscape dotted with large patches of bare soil.| Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
