A Landowner's Guide to Prairie Conservation Strips

August 2012

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

This four-page color fact sheet offers basic guidelines for planting and maintaining prairie conservation strips on row-cropped farms. The recommendations are based on research conducted by the STRIPs Research Team at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Additional resources are listed in this updated guide.

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This page was found at http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs-and-papers/2012-08-landowners-guide-prairie-conservation-strips on 01/21/2013