Twenty Years of Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction and Restoration at Pawnee Prairie Natural Area, Missouri

In 1996 the Missouri Department of Conservation purchased Pawnee Prairie, a 190-ha mix of remnant tallgrass prairie and formerly row-cropped prairie with varying degrees of Festuca arundinacea invasion and past cattle grazing intensities on rolling terrain in the central dissected till plains ecological section. Management actions implemented over the following 20 y included prescribed fire, herbicide treatments of invasive nonnative species,...