Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter
The Tallgrass Prairie Newsletter highlights the people and activities of the University of Northern Iowa Tallgrass Prairie Center, which restores native vegetation for the benefit of society and environment through research, education, and technology. The newsletter is no longer active.
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Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Summer 2019
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Irvine Prairie
-- Friends of the Tallgrass Prairie Center
-- 2019 Prairie on Farms Field Days
-- Prairie Root Banners
-- County Seed Pick Up
-- Student Research
-- New Staff at the TPC
-- Green Iowa Americorps Land & Water Stewards
-- Iowa's Noxious Weed Law Updated & Improved
-- Honors & Awards
-- Visitors & Community Meetings
-- Ensuring Access to High Quality Native Seed: Lessons Learned from the CRP Pollinator Initiative
-- Save the Date
-- Tallgrass Prairie Center Celebrates 20 Years! -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Fall 2018
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
--Irvine Prairie
--2018 Prairie on Farms Field Day
--IRVM Seed Pick Up
--Dr. Doug Tallamy
--New Staff at the TPC
--Save the Date -
Tallgrass Prairie Center News, Autumn 2017
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
--Into the Weeds: The Pollinator Habitat Evaluation Project
--New Equipment for Field, Lab, and Classroom at the Tallgrass Prairie Center
--Coming Soon: Four Sensational Seminars
--Enhancing Roadsides With Milkweeds and Other Prairie Species: Can We Do it Cost-effectively?
--New Brochures Address Common Questions about Roadside Vegetation -
Tallgrass Prairie Center News, Autumn 2016
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
--Prairie: the Ultimate Sandbag
--Maximizing Monarchs and Dollars: What Kind of Seed Mix is Best?
--The Native 'Plant Materials Gap'
--Prairie on Farms: Prairie strips planted on a farm in Black Hawk County
--What County Engineers and Roadside Vegetation Managers Think About Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management
--UNI Conservation Corps Community Rain Gardens Project
--New Center Staff Profile
--Save the Date! -
Tallgrass Prairie Center News, Spring 2016
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
--Tallgrass Prairie Center News
--Tallgrass Prairie Center Plans for the Future
--Prairie On Farms Working Group Meeting
--The New Chapter of Biomass Energy Work at the Tallgrass Prairie Center
--Prairie on Farms 2015 Installed Prairie Strips
--Bring Back the Natives
--Staffing Transitions
--Iowa's Prairie Road 'Seeds'
--Prairie Roots Project
--2016 Restoration and Management Seminar Series
--The Prairie in Seed - NEW PUBLICATION!
--Student Profiles -
Tallgrass Prairie Center News, Fall 2015
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Black Soil and Gold Hues: 29th Roadside Conference
-- In-Field of Dreams: Prairie Strips Will Come
-- Putting TPC expertise to work on Monarch and Pollinator Conservation
-- Paddy Woodworth, Irish Author Visits UNI
-- 2015 Iowa Prairie Conference: Working Prairies
-- Controlling Invasive Cattails by Fire, Herbicide, and Mowing
-- Iowa IRVM Story Map Project
-- A Sand Mound Prairie Attracts Butterflies...and Admirers
-- New Publications Available from the Tallgrass Prairie Center
-- Student Profiles: Jordan Young, Graduate Student, Biology
-- Student Profiles: Wynton Karanja, Global Health: Health Disparities -
Tallgrass Prairie Center News, Spring 2015
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- 2015 Iowa Prairie Conference: Working Prairies
-- High Diversity = High Performance
-- IRVM Updates
-- Prairie Power Project
-- Prairie on Farms
-- Prairie on Farms Demonstration Workshops
-- Milkweeds: Monarch Immigration Reform
-- New Student Employee
-- New Center Staff -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newletter, Autumn 2014
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- The Tallgrass Prairie Center Goes to Washington (and Missouri, West Virginia, and Colorado)
-- 2015 Iowa Prairie Conference
-- ISAC Excellence in Action Award to UNI's Native Seed Distribution Program
-- What You Sow Is What Will Grow
-- The effect of summer floods on plant and wildlife diversity in managed prairie plantings: observations from a "natural experiment" in the Cedar River floodplain
-- Ecological Restoration Seminar
-- Friends of the Tallgrass Prairie Center
-- New Grad Student/Employees
-- Name that plant? -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Autumn 2013
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- New Roles at the Tallgrass Prairie Center
-- UNI Roadside Program Takes Storm Lake by Storm: 27th Annual Roadside Conference Marks "A Watershed Year"
-- Volunteer Tree Control
-- To what forb does this seed pod belong?
-- Milkweeds for Monarchs and Other Native Pollinators
-- Featured Student Employees/Interns -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2013
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- 2013 Iowa Prairie Conference, Decorah, IA
-- New IRVM Program Manager: Rebecca Kauten
-- What a Difference a Year Makes in a Planted Prairie
-- UNI Goes to Des Moines - UNI DAY
-- National Native Seed Conference
-- Center Receive's UNI C.A.R.E. Award
-- Plant Iowa Natives
-- Featured Student Employees/Interns -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Autumn 2012
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Butterfly Survey at Cedar River Natural Area
-- Renewed Assault on Prairie
-- Practical Data Collection: Establishing Methods and Procedures for Measuring Water Clarity and Turbidity of Stormwater Runoff from Active Highway Construction Sites
-- Seven Things to consider when hand collecting prairie seed
-- Reachin' Out (!) to a Different Kind of Audience
-- Ryan's Reachin' Out! Cowboy Cookies -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2012
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Twenty Third North American Prairie Conference: Celebrating Our Prairie Heritage
-- Potential Bus Charter to Winnipeg for Conference
-- Burning Hay to Generate Electricity
-- 22nd NAPC 2010 Preceedings Available
-- Transportation Enhancements: The future of this little known program may be in doubt
-- Meet Dustin Graham, New Graduate Student, Biology at UNI/Tallgrass Prairie Center
-- Iowa Wildflower Week
-- Iowa Prairie Heritage Week
-- Interested in planting a prairie? Restoring a remnant savanna, prairie or wetland? -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Fall 2011
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Iowa Wrote the Book on IRVM
-- Center Extreme MakeOver: New Research Lab, Seed Cooler, Shop and Equipment Storage Space
-- "The Effect of Perigynia Removal and Stratification on Germination and Emergence of Three Sedge (Carex) Species"
-- Recent Presentations of Center Programs and Projects Natural Areas and Ecological Management Seminar presents: Bulk Seed Harvesting of a Diverse Reconstructed Prairie
-- Wetland Delineation Course June 11-15, 2012
-- Videos Soon to be Available On-Line
-- Natural Selections Seed to be Stored Nationally -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2011
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Natural Landscaping at UNI
-- Map of the Mid-Continent Tallgrass Prairie
-- Iowa Prairie Conference
-- Reaching Out
-- Interested in planting a prairie? Or perhaps you're restoring a remant savanna prairie or wetland?
-- Another Roadside Attraction: AFIRM Winter Meeting & REAP Day at the Capitol (and Weed Sociology 101)
-- Student Employee Profiles -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Fall 2010
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- 22nd North American Prairie Conference: Wrapping Up a National Treasure
-- The Road Less Traveled
-- Seventh Semester of NRRM Seminar, Another Success
-- Two New Tallgrass Prairie Center Publications
-- Interested in planting a prairie? Or perhaps you're restoring a remnant savanna, prairie or wetland?
-- Roadside Mowing Law Cuts One
-- Graduate Student Research Projects -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2010
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- 22nd North American Prairie Conference: Restoring a National Treasure
-- Fewer Grass Seeds Increases Wildflowers
-- Another Semester of Successful Seminars at the TPC
-- Wetland Plant Materials Development Meeting
-- Recent Publications about Center programs and projects
-- Another Roadside Infraction
-- Student Employee Profiles
-- Can You Identify this Seedling -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Fall 2009
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Plasticulture for Wetland Seed Production
-- Prescribed Fire Workshops for NRCS Personnel
-- Natural Resources Fall Seminar Wrap-UP
-- White Chicken Chili on the Range Plant shallow!
-- Roadsides: Living on the Edge
-- Onward and Upward...Student Employees Graduate to Next Level
-- Can You Identify this Seedling -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2009
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Prairie in Peril?
-- Care for a Carez
-- 2nd Spring Seminar Series Wrap-Up
-- Roadside Easy Target for GPS
-- America's Lost Landscape Documentary Goes International
-- Prescribed Fire Workshops for NRCS Field Staff
-- Prairie Smoke Salsa
-- Graduate Student Profiles
-- Native Plant Propagation Workshop -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Fall 2008
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- The Tallgrass Prairie Center and UNI To Host 22nd NAPC in 2010
-- A Roaders Convention
-- Tallgrass Prairie Center Distributes Film to Iowa Classrooms
-- Restoration Guide Brochures Available
-- Adding Wildflowers to Prairie Grass Plantings: Ten Years Later
-- 2nd Annual Fall Seminar Series
-- Native Seed Harvest and Cleaning Workshop
-- Student Employees Restore A National Treasure -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2008
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Lost Landscape Teachers Workshop
-- Native Seed Production Manual
-- Frost Seeding Natives
-- Spring Seminar Series: A Blooming Success
-- Recognizing Twenty Years of the Living Roadway Trust Fund
-- Prairie Arts
-- Prescribed Fire in Grasslands DVD Available
-- Seedling Identification Workshop
-- Student Employees Gain Experiences in Their Fields -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newletter, Fall 2007
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Researching the use of prairie hay to generate electricity
-- Tallgrass Prairie Center Open House Roadside Revival in Independence
-- The Tallgrass Prairie Center's Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest
-- Ragbrai 2007
-- Fall Seminar Series
-- Ecological Restoration Interns 'Brush' with Success! -
Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2007
University of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.
Inside This Issue:
-- Meet the Tallgrass Prairie Center...a (very) brief history!
-- Native Plant Workshops at the Tallgrass Prairie Center
-- Prairie Research
-- Two Ecological Restoration Internships New This Summer
-- New Initiatives in Native Foundation Seed Development
-- Fifty-Two Iowa Counties Pick up Prairie Grass and Wildflower Seed
-- Congratulations to Graduating Employees
