Promoting Diversity in Pacific Northwest Prairie Restorations
Project ID: J8W07070010
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Partner Institution: University of Washington
Fiscal Year: 2007
Initial Funding: $13,990
Total Funding: $43,990
Project Type: Research
Project Disciplines: Biological
National Park: Ebey’s Landing NHR
Principal Investigator: Bakker, Jonathan
Agreement Technical Representative: Rochefort, Regina
Abstract: This project will evaluate techniques for establishing diverse prairie vegetation in an abandoned agricultural field at Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve. Increasing plant diversity will provide a broader range of wildlife habitat, promote plant community stability, reduce invasion by exotic species, and help meet EBLA’s management goals. Three vegetation control techniques (none, mowing+herbicide, fire+herbicide) will be tested, along with nine diversity treatments (combinations of graminoid and forb functional groups and three propagule types (none, seeds, plugs).
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