North Dakota outdoors: The benefits of grasslands

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
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

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…