Improving Restorations: Seeding best practices

You have a seed mix, now what? Learn from experts in the field about best practices for seeding to improve vegetation outcomes in your next restoration.

Presenters
Karin Jokela, Pollinator Conservation Specialist/NRCS Partner Biologist – The Xerces Society
Karin provides pollinator-related technical support and training to NRCS field office conservation planners and farmers, primarily in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. She has worked with landowners to design, implement and evaluate habitat restoration efforts. Karin also manages a small native plant nursery on her and her husband’s organic vegetable farm.

Shawn May, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Private Lands Biologist – Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District
Shawn has been restoring wetlands and prairies in the Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District since 2003. Annually, he broadcasts around 300 acres of native prairie seed on former cropland. Shawn is involved in all aspects of the upland restoration program at Detroit Lakes, from selecting harvest sites, to bagging seed, to driving equipment during the seeding process.

This webinar was hosted through a partnership of the University of Minnesota Extension's Ecological Restoration Training Cooperative and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Legacy Fund Restoration Evaluation Program.

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