Goal:
Through class activities create a site displaying native species
important in Minnesota’s varied original prairie communities in the
south central section of the west field.
Potential Class Projects/Activities:
1. Determine through literature search those prairie species that were
historically most significant in Minnesota’s prairie communities and
their particular abiotic requirements.
2. Determine the abiotic characteristics of the site important to
prairie plant success.
3. Determine most appropriate locations and then plant species deemed
to be most likely to survive on the site.
4. Create a map of the site showing plant species location.
5. Create an informative pamphlet to accompany the map describing
basic natural history of the plants.
Service Learning Component:
1. Students “adopt a plant (or group thereof)” and, after researching
the historical range and type of biotic and abiotic associations,
perform micromanagement of the immediate vicinity to avoid encroachment
of undesired species, etc.
2. Removal of unwanted woody species too large for brush hog removal.
Subunit 1
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