1. Prairie
Restoration
Trevor Chalstrom
Altay Ozen
Sarah Phillips
Kristin Polchow
PavelNikolov

2. Background Information
 Prairies are an intricate ecosystem
with grasses, forbs, fungi and fires
working together.
 Material for the prairies was
deposited during the last glacial
advance about 10,000 years ago.
 75% of the biomass is below the soil
surface which helps reduce erosion
and keeps the plants coming back
after fires.
 Today less that 1/10th of 1% of
native prairies remain in the US.

3. Why we need them?
 A lot of different
species call it home
 Filters runoff from rain
 Beauty
 Stops erosion

4. Hard Labor Experience
 Firstmixed seed with sand.
 Spread out certain seeds in a particular
area for their study.
 After each section we had to remove all
the mud from our shoes with bare hands
so the seeds from a certain area wouldn’t
get mixed with different sections.

6. The Project
 The project that we worked for is mainly
about the small animal’s effect on the
prairie growth.
 Some people say that prairies are what
small animals make them.
 Open versus Fenced

7. Future Steps
 The primary  To get involved
objective is to contact:
continue to help  Lauren Sullivan;
assist landowners laurensul@gmail.com
and organizations in  Department of Natural
prairie restoration Resources:
projects.  John Pearson; 515-281-
3891
 Daryl Howell 515-281-
8524

8. Work cited
 http://www.moprairie.org/WhyGrasslands.
html
 http://www.americanprairie.org/projectpr
ogress/people/
 http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publica
tions/PM1351G.pdf