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Protecting The Remnants, Glenis Ayling
Protecting The Remnants, Glenis Ayling
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Our native flora and fauna do best in their own environment, so one way of protecting them is to conserve and maintain areas of remnant vegetation throughout our farmlands. This is the aim of the Remnant Vegetation Protection Scheme in which the State Government helps private landholders to voluntarily fence off and manage areas of native vegetation on farms.
Vegetation Of Saratoga Landing Blackland Prairie, Thomas L. Foti
Vegetation Of Saratoga Landing Blackland Prairie, Thomas L. Foti
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
Saratoga Landing Blackland Prairie is a 75-ha site owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and managed cooperatively with the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission to protect its blackland prairie community and rare plant species. The site is a complex of prairies and forests, as interpreted from aerial photos and maps. It was substantially prairie at the time of settlement, and forest cover did not increase greatly until after 1951, apparently due to effective suppression of wildfires after that time. Plot sampling characterizes an individual prairie on the site as being dominated by a herbaceous canopy, but with a substantial …