These restored grasslands mean a lot especially with habitat conditions the way they are right now in our state. Chestnut Colored Long Spur photo courtesy of North Dakota Game & Fish
North Dakota outdoors: The benefi ts of grasslands
You don’t have to be a biologist or range scientist to see how the land use of grasslands of North Dakota has changed.
Ashlyn Herron, a University of North Dakota master’s in biology student, is using technology to determine if high-quality grassland habitat restoration through the Meadowlark Initiative is successfully occurring. The Meadowlark Initiative is a statewide strategy that teams landowne…