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Enhancing Indiana's Wildlife Habitat with Warm Season Grasses

Discover the benefits of warm season grasses for wildlife habitat in Indiana, including drought resistance and soil enrichment. Learn about management techniques like controlled burns and tree plantings to improve wildlife diversity and habitat composition.

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Enhancing Indiana's Wildlife Habitat with Warm Season Grasses

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  1. Indiana Wildlife Habitat • Warm season grasses • Wooded wildlife • Wetland/ marsh • Herbaceous wildlife • Stream replacement

  2. Recap Quail Habitat Composition

  3. Benefits of Warm Season Grasses vs. Cool Season Grasses • Drought resistance • Grows well on both good and poor soils • Greater tolerance of acidity • No fertilizer necessary • Great soil stabilizing and enriching root masses • Great wildlife cover • Ease of Maintenance • Aesthetic beauty and a return to native flora

  4. Examples of Wildlife and/or Warm season grass plantings on both Title IV and Title V projects and Management techniques

  5. Tecumseh AML Project

  6. Management TechniquesTecumseh AML ProjectSpring Controlled Burn

  7. Management TechniquesTecumseh AML Project Spring Controlled Burn

  8. Tecumseh Summer after burn

  9. Tecumseh Fall (Green) Burn

  10. BBCC Somerville Mine

  11. Vigo Squaw Creek Mine

  12. Columbia Tree Plantings

  13. Triad Freelandville Tree Planting

  14. THE END

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