Completed Competitive Grant

Wildlife use of terraces in Iowa rowcrop fields

Project ID: 1998-35

Abstract

Terracing is a soil conservation practice that has been promoted throughout the Midwest since the days of the Dust Bowl era. The benefits for controlling soil erosion are well-documented, but the values to wildlife are much less clear. This study documented the numbers and species of birds and small mammals as well as the number of small mammal dens in southwest Iowa terraces.

Lead investigator: Louis B. Best, ISU Animal Ecology

Year of grant completion: 1999

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Corn-soybean cropping systems, Conservation practices, Wildlife and recreation

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