Grape vines are troublesome in some areas of the two State Natural Areas Kathie and I manage. They sprawl over everything and shade out the good plants. We spend quite…

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When planning for prescribed burns it is useful to use the computer program BehavePlus to analyze the various possibilities. This free program is available from a U.S. Forest Service web…

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Ecologist Mark Leach has recently published an interesting "book" on ecological restoration in Wisconsin. The word "book" is in parentheses because it is only available as a PDF on a…

I posted something on snow-melt patterns in 2009 and 2010, but not with so broad a scope. Yesterday I took some photos of the south-facing slope from across the wetland…

Those who hiked near the wetland should remember the old corn crib that sat right between the Barn and Crane Prairies. This little building dated back to the original Lockwood…

The tree database that we have set up is useful for a lot of purposes, and as time permits I do various analyses with ArcGIS. The map below provides a…

In the 1990s there was a flurry of interest in oak savanna restoration. In 1993 the Environmental Protection Agency funded a symposium/workshop on oak savannas. The next year there was…

I have been using GIS to keep track of the restoration work at Pleasant Valley Conservancy. The first air photo below is from 2005, just after we had completed our…