Testing a Trio: Prairie Strips, Row Crops and Birds

February 2012

Iowa farmers can create vital habitat for grassland birds by incorporating small strips of native prairies into row-cropped fields. Anna MacDonald, ISU graduate student in wildlife ecology, discusses a Leopold Center research project at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Filmed November 2011.

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