Grazing for Birds – Plum Creek Conservation Area – Crawford County

Join Krysten Zummo, Range Ecologist for the National Audubon Society, on Saturday, June 27th from 9 am – 11 am at Plum Creek Conservation Area to see the birds of the Conservancy’s Plum Creek Conservation Area and learn about how cattle can be used as a management tool to create healthy grassland bird habitat!

Michael Reitz, the Plum Creek Conservation Area manager and restoration ecologist will guide participants on a tour of a 210-acre field that, only a few years ago, was planted to corn, eroding at an alarming rate, and devoid of habitat. As part of restoration efforts to find overlap between conservation and agriculture, 170 acres were planted to pollinator prairie and 40 acres were planted to pasture that incorporates native prairie plants.

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