Vegetation survey and management recommendations for Homestead National Monument of America
Sutton RK, Stubbendieck J, Trager J. 1984. Vegetation survey and management recommendations for Homestead National Monument of America. Natural Resources Enterprises, Inc. Lincoln, NE
The management history and existing condition of the vegetation at Homestead National Monument of America were investigated from August 1982 through December 1984. The major tasks were 1) to document condition of the prairie, 2) to prepare an herbarium collection, and 3) to provide a prairie management action plan. A general overview of potential prairie restoration and management techniques was also provided. These techniques included discussions of seed and seeding, mulches, irrigation, forb enrichment, transplanting, grazing, mowing, haying, weed control, and burning. As a result of the investigation, several critical areas of concern were noted: lowland prairie, existing State Highway 4 right-of-way, old State Highway 4 right-of-way, extant osage-orange hedgerow, offsite erosion, onsite upland erosion, tree intrusion into lowland prairie, disturbed lowland prairie with perennial weeds, location and use of pioneer crops area, woodland, Freeman School prairie remnant, shrub edge, and shrub intrusion into prairie. The three major plant communities were upland prairie, lowland prairie, and woodland. The study and intensive management recommendations focused on the prairie types. Vegetation sampling results show previous attempts to restore prairie species have been successful on the uplands. The lowlands, however, have failed to respond favorably to several seeding attempts. This report recommends a target species composition based on information in Dr. J.E. Weaver's North American Prairie. Contract # CX-6000-2-0056
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Sutton, Richard; Stubbendieck, James; Trager, Jayne
- Date of Issue
- 1984
- Publisher
- Natural Resources Enterprises, Inc
- Units
- HOME
- Keywords
- Disturbance, Erosion, FIRE, Forb, Freeman School, Grazing, haying, hedgerows, Herbaria, Historic Vegetation, Homestead National Monument Of America Beatrice Nebraska, Irrigation, Management, Mowing, mulch, osage orange (Maclura pomifera), Plants, Prairie, Prescribed Burns, Resource Management, Restoration, Right-Of-Way (ROW), Seed, Seeding, Species Composition, Transplanting, Vegetation, Weed Control