Research Results
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Summaries
Easy-to-read summaries are available for these recently completed projects funded by Leopold Center competitive grants.
- Establishing an Iowa microenterprise foundation
- Latino farmers and local multicultural food and marketing systems
- Adding a new generation to Iowa's sustainable farms
- Iowa recreational property ownership: Identification, contact and social dynamics of multiple-use perennial landcover
- Sustainable economic development through organic and grazing dairy farm establishment and transition
- On-line learning: Using webinars to teach about succession and enterprise development issues
Scientific Journals
Leopold Center-supported projects have resulted in these papers, recently published in peer-reviewed journals. Check at a research library or the journal’s website for abstract or full report.
- Morton, Lois Wright, Elise Regen, David Engle, James Miller and Ryan Harr (2010). Perceptions of Landowners Concerning Conservation, Grazing, Fire and Eastern Redcedar Management in Tallgrass Prairie, Rangeland Ecology Management 63: 645-654. URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2111/REM-D-09-00041.1
In a three-year project funded by the Leopold Center Ecology Initiative, researchers found that while landowners were very concerned about invasive species such as eastern redcedar, few used fire to control it. They also worked with private landowners and public lands to incorporate patch-burn methods to manage land for grazing and wildlife habitat.
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