MPF Webinar: Prairie Planting Establishment & Stewardship Q & A with Jerod Huebner

Prairie plantings provide multiple benefits including wildlife and pollinator habitat, cattle forage, stormwater management and erosion control, and beauty. In this free Q&A webinar, MPF Director of Prairie Management Jerod Huebner will briefly lay out the basics of site preparation, seeding, invasive species control, and prescribed fire, and devote the rest of the webinar to answering your questions.

This free webinar, to be held via Zoom, will include a presentation and a live question-and-answer session. Please register at the link below. The webinar will be recorded, with a link to the recording sent to all registrants and posted to the MPF YouTube channel as well.

Cost: Free

MPF’s Director of Prairie Management Jerod Huebner oversees prairie management planning and execution including invasive species control, prescribed fire, and all other aspects of the stewardship of MPF’s prairies. Huebner also administers prairie stewardship grants and participates in prairie outreach and education activities.

Huebner earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2010. While in college, Huebner worked at MPF’s and the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Prairie Fork Conservation and Expansion Areas in Callaway County on a variety of prairie reconstruction activities. After graduating, Huebner worked as a wildlife biologist at the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area in St. Charles. Among his duties in that position were managing 18,000 acres of high public use conservation areas in the St. Louis region, preparing management plans, supervising staff, grant writing, and numerous outreach activities. He holds Level 3 Fire Burn Boss Certification and has conducted numerous wildlife population surveys.

Jerod was named Wildlife Conservationist of the Year by the Conservation Federation of Missouri on March 6, 2020.