Completed Special Project

Whiterock Conservancy baseline data project

Project ID: ESP2006-04

Abstract

Baseline surveys of pasture diversity and bird populations were conducted and will be used to help inform conservation-based land management decisions at the Whiterock Conservancy in southwest Iowa.

Key Question: Can you have both beef and bobolinks on the same acres?

Findings: As Whiterock Conservancy integrates "prairie pasture" plantings and grazing/prescribed burning management tools into the current cool-season grass pasture matrix, it is hypothesized that bobolink and other grassland bird nesting frequency will increase.

Lead investigator: Elizabeth Hill, Whiterock Conservancy, et al

Year of grant completion: 2008

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

Topics: Watershed and ecoregion, Wildlife and recreation

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