Sentences with phrase «native prairie lands»

There are a number of conditions for pasture land purchases including each pasture must be maintained in each block, sales will be based on market value, native prairie lands will be subject to no - break / no - drain conservation easements and federal Species at Risk Act will be enforced.

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Russell Johnson, an ecologist and member of the northwest suburban chapter of the National Audubon Society, said his organization understands the opponents» concerns about the property but supports the concept of restoring the land to a native prairie habitat.

The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest.

Findings reported in today's Science linking bison grazing to plant diversity in a Kansas tallgrass prairie offer hope to land managers trying to preserve the last remnants of native U.S. grasslands.

Prairie Yoga is based in what was once native Illinois prairie land.

Since that initial land purchase, the preserve has blossomed into 3,000 acres of high - quality prairie that is home to 700 native plant species and 180 species of birds.

Many of the plants sold today «have been hybridized to the point that they don't have much value to pollinators,» said Ron Bowen, president of Prairie Restorations (www.prairieresto.com) of Princeton, Minn., who encourages homeowners to convert 25 percent of their land to native prairie plants.