Prescribed burn at MPF’s Carver Prairie. Photo: Randy Haas

Prairie Management

Articles in the Missouri Prairie Journal

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Mills, Mark S., Darrin Welchert, and Jordan Meyer. 2016. The Hills are Alive with Herps. Missouri Prairie Journal 37(1): 20-23.

Prairie Management

MPF Prairie Strips Ecosystem Service Incentive Payment Program, Vol. 45, Nos. 3 & 4

Sand Prairie Protection, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2023

Evaluation of Native Plant Seeding Density for Diverse Prairie Reconstructions, Vol 41, Nos. 3 & 4, 2022

Historical Accounts of Native American Fires on the Tallgrass Prairie, Vol. 41, No. 3 & 4, 2021

Reconstructions Expand Prairie Habitat at Carver, Snowball Hill, and Pleasant Run Creek Prairies, Vol. 41, Nos. 3 & 4, 2020

Woody Encroachment of Prairies: Shrub Invasion, Root Myths, & Climate Change, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2020

Grassland Management is Key to Reducing Quail Predation, Vol. 40, Nos. 3 & 4, 2019

The Pure Air Wildlife Management Cooperative, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2019

Prairie Power: Roeslein Alternative Energy Moves Toward Horizon, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2019

To Put Out Fire, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2019

Prairie and Native Grassland Reconstructions, Vol. 39, Nos. 3 & 4, 2018

Tools for Prescribed Burning, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2018

Prescribed Burn Seasonality, Vol. 38, Nos. 3 & 4, 2017 (see accompanying research on Orthopteran and Leaf Beetle Populations)

Establishing Native Pasture with a Cover Crop Cocktail, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2016

Remnants to Restoration: Central Missouri’s remnant glades, savannas, and prairies give life to Prairie Fork reconstruction efforts, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2011

Patch-Burn Grazing and Prairie Vegetation, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2010

Fescue’s Hidden Secret, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2009

Best Management Practices for Problem Plants, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2009

Landowners Guide to Prescribed Burning on Grasslands, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2008

 

Native Warm-Season Grass News with Steve Clubine

The Drought Continues (and more), Vol. 45, No. 1, 2024

2023 Drought: Part Two (and more), Vol. 44, Nos. 3 & 4, 2023

Freeze, Drought, & Calf Prices (and more) Vol. 44, No. 2, 2023

Benefits and Challenges of Goldenrod in Plantings (and more), Vol. 44, No. 1, 2023

Fall is a Great Time to Treat Callery Pear (and more), Vol. 43, Nos. 3 & 4, 2022

Tribute to a Prairie Pioneer: Tom Toney (and more), Vol. 43, No. 2, 2022

Native Pasture Gaining Traction (and more), Vol. 43, No. 1, 2022

Choosing Steers, Coyotes, and Grassland Carbon Sinks, Vol. 42, Nos. 3 & 4, 2021

Is This Plant Poisonous to Cattle?, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2021

Bison in the Midwest, Cow Heat Stress, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2021

Invasive Plants, COVID-19 and Beef, and Tall Fescue in the U.S., Vol. 41, Nos. 3 & 4, 2020

Grass Drills and Eastern Redcedar Control, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2020

Do Bison Follow the Green Wave?, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2020

2019 North American Prairie Conference, Houston, TX, Vol. 40, Nos. 3 & 4, 2019

New Research on Native Forage and Cattle Weight Gain, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2019

Cape Cod Island Prairies, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2019

Native Warm-Season Grass Hay, Pasture Walks, Drought, Vol. 39, Nos. 3 & 4, 2018

The Origin of Osage Orange Hedgerows, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2018

Tools for Prescribed Burning and Book Reviews, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2018

The Principle of Three, Invasive Weeds, Iowa Prairie Conference, Grassland Bird Conservation Research in MN and IA, and more, Vol. 38, Nos. 3 & 4, 2017

Greater Prairie-Chicken Trapping, Poison Hemlock, Kansas Wildfires, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2017

Prairie Grouse Diets, Increased Birds on NWSG, Grass-finished Beef, and more, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2017

Summer Grazing (pg. 29); Buying Grass-Finished Beef (pg. 29); New MDC and Partners Personnel Learn about Grasslands (pg. 29); Alternative Method for Controlling Sericea Lespedeza (pg. 31); Dow-AgroScience Adds Wicking Label for PastureGard HL Herbicide (pg. 31); Managed Grasslands Support More Quail than Traditional Food Plots (pg. 32), Vol. 37, Nos. 3 & 4, 2016

Greater Prairie-Chicken Trapping for Illinois, Summer Grazing and Economics of Weed Control in Forage Management, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2016

2015 Patch-Burn Grazing Working Group Meeting, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2016

Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Sequestration, Vol. 36, Nos. 3 & 4, 2015

Native Warm-Season Grass Grazing Research, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2015

Differences in Some Cool-Season and Native Grasses for GPC Nesting Cover; Controlling Invasive Plants: Sericea lespedeza (pg. 31), Teasel (pg. 32), Caucasian, Plains and Other Old World Bluestems (pg. 32), Vol. 36, No. 1, 2015

Prairie-Chicken Translocation 2008-2014; Prescribed Burning Glades and Open Woodlands/Savannas; Facts about Tall Fescue, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2014

Cutting Hay, Vol 35, No. 2, 2014

Notes from the 2013 Patch-Burn Grazing Working Group Meeting, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2014

Field Tours of Grassland Management, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2013

The Winter That Wouldn’t End, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2013

Pasture Conversion and Control of Invasives, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2013

Drought Resistant Pastures to Reconnect Cows and Quail, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2012

Fescue Management on Prairie, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2012

Nitrate Build Up in the Soil, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2012

Warm Season Grass Moving Forward from the Drought, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2012

Bloat-Free Legumes Show Pasture Potential, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2012

Grazing Horses on Prairie, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2012

Grassland Bird Outlook, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2012

History of Grazing on Missouri’s Prairies, Haying and Grazing for Livestock Production and Wildlife, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2011

Grassland Management with Fire and Grazing, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2011

Seed Production and Availability; Invasive Plant Control, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2011

 

Presettlement Prairie Documents and Maps

The Presettlement Prairie in the Kansas City Region (Jackson County, Missouri), Vol. 6, 1985

Early Prairies of St. Louis City,  Vol. 2, 1981

 

Invasive Species

Invasive Plants, COVID-19 and Beef, and Tall Fescue in the U.S., Vol. 41, Nos. 3 & 4, 2020

Ceasing the Sale of Invasive Plants, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2020

Invasive Species Control for Prairie and Native Grassland Conservation, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2018

 

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