Sentences with phrase «prairie restoration»

Park Ranger — Duties & Responsibilities Highly trained in resource and wildlife management in academic and field settings Assist Texas Parks and Wildlife with prairie restoration project Responsible for trail clearance, seed collection, and seed cleaning Conduct agricultural and wildlife surveys, inventories, and analysis Manage wildlife projects such as alligator relocation and mourning dove banding Direct elk, Montezuma quail, and scaled quail capture and blood sampling Oversee cattle and horse tagging, vaccinations, branding, herding, and training Perform telemetry work and utilize industry equipment including Locate 3 Operate machinery including backhoes, skid steer, tractors, and welding equipment Serve as a public speaker for Sul Ross State University and Texas Parks and Wildlife Recognized for excellence in leadership and dedication to natural stewardship Represent profession with poise, integrity, and positivity

Milkweed seed for the project has been donated by several amazing organizations, including the largest tallgrass prairie restoration project, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farms.

That finding could, for example, support the idea of using more diverse seed mixes in prairie restoration projects, or keeping a prairie grassland instead of turning it into marginal agricultural land.

Big bluestem grass can live several decades, so prairie restoration projects will need to consider the form of plants that would thrive at a site several decades into the future, researchers said.

You can create a backyard prairie restoration that will enrich your soil, help with erosion and take up extra water in excessive rainfalls.

Prescribed or controlled burning is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, or prairie restoration.

The public is invited to join the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County for a prairie restoration workday from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Herrick Lake Forest Preserve in Wheaton.

The Liberty Prairie Conservancy is looking for volunteers to plant flowers and grass at two prairie restoration sites in central Lake County.

The march, one of many «March for Parks» programs being held throughout America to celebrate Earth Day, will raise funds for the nature center's prairie restoration program.

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It also has installed pervious paver parking lots at Winding Creek Park, Weigand Riverfront Park and Seager Park and performed prairie and woodland restoration at Pioneer Park.

Elmhurst — The Park District, in a move it said will preserve a section of prairie that is a «jewel,» has announced a plan for restoration of the Great Western Prairie along the Illinois Prairie Path from Spring Road to Salt Creek.

It also is commonly used in grassland restoration of prairies across several million acres in the Great Plains region.

Modern genetic technologies may help complete the restoration of this cunning predator of the prairies» keystone species: the prairie dog.

The first phase of the Hawk Hill / Battery Construction 129 Restoration and Trail Improvement Project was recently completed with the restoration of approximately six acres of coastal scrub and prairie vegetation, to create improved habitat for declining bird populations and the endangered Mission blue butterfly, and the preservation of the historic resources at Battery ConstrRestoration and Trail Improvement Project was recently completed with the restoration of approximately six acres of coastal scrub and prairie vegetation, to create improved habitat for declining bird populations and the endangered Mission blue butterfly, and the preservation of the historic resources at Battery Constrrestoration of approximately six acres of coastal scrub and prairie vegetation, to create improved habitat for declining bird populations and the endangered Mission blue butterfly, and the preservation of the historic resources at Battery Construction 129.

Surface mining techniques are even more damaging, both in regions such as Central Appalachia, where mountaintop removal methods are deployed, and in deserts and prairies, where arid conditions make reclamation and restoration of underground water supplies difficult.

Now, armed with rapidly expanding knowledge about carbon sequestration in soils, researchers are studying how land restoration programs in places like the former North American prairie, the North China Plain, and even the parched interior of Australia might help put carbon back into the soil...

The Prairie Restoration Project is the company's biggest responsibility; at the main office, SECURA has set aside two acres of land to reestablish the prairie land to provide an ecosystem for the plants and animals in the area.

To help gardeners create more bee - friendly landscapes, Bowen has developed a series of prairie - restoration kits, which contain plants and seedlings to cover a 500 - square - foot area — about the size of a very large living room — along with a book about wildflowers.

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.