Papers presented at the conference held, June 23-27, 2002, in Kirksville, Missouri.
Conservation priorities on fragmented, homogenized Great Plains landscapes / DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, BR Coppedge. -- Grow native! Connecting conservation and commerce from the backyard to the back forty / J Allmon. -- Wild ones natural landscaper: gardening with native plants in St Louis Region for 3 Years / S Woodbury. -- Creating native gardens / A Wakeman. -- Selling native plants in the retail garden center: Challenges and opportunities / N Hamill. -- Growing native plants for fun, or profit? / N Diboll. -- MoDOT and the expansion of native use on roadsides / S Armstrong. -- Small-scale field production of forb seed / RS Arndt. -- Student-generated field guides teach about identification of local prairie plants and animals / GD Bisbee. -- The coastal prairie habitat as a model to promote sustainability in the agricultural curriculum / B Borsari. -- Status of railroad prairies in west central Illinois / AK Moorehouse. -- Innovative land acquisition and fund-raising techniques used to preserve a threatened Missouri prairie / AL Thomas, G Galbraith. -- Ecosystem restoration at the landscape scale: design and implementation at the Efroymson Restoration at Kankakee Sands / CH O'Leary, JA Shuey. -- The prairie reconstruction at Kaufmann Museum in south central Kansas / DR Platt, L Habegger Harder. -- Comparison of planting treatments in a tallgrass prairie restoration / TA Aschenbach, K Kindscher. -- Soil carbon assessment across a native prairie restoration chronosequence / CA Cambardella [and others]. -- Restoration of a prairie-savanna mosaic in northern Missouri / GW Hartman. -- Spring haying as an alternative to spring burning on a reconstructed roadside prairie / D Tix, I Charvat. -- Are there keystone plant species driving diversity in Midwest prairies? / RA Henderson. -- The efficacy of herbicides for eradicating tall fescue / ME Ruffner, TG Barnes. -- Prairie restoration at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie / W Glass, E Ulaszek. -- Remnants to roadsides: The Iowa Ecotype Project / G Houseal. -- From borrow pit to long-term prairie study site / D Geiger [and others] -- The Cajun Prairie Gardens: demonstrations of sustainable landscaping in southwestern Louisiana / MF Vidrine [and others]. -- Effects of small herbivores on a grassland undergoing restoration / M Murphy [and others] -- Using spatially oriented databases as a tool to manage roadside prairie remnants / C Shulse [and others]. -- A comparison between nested quadrant and point-line intercept sampling methods for fire effects monitoring in shortgrass prairie / PK Benjamin, JA Stumpf, NB Pavlovic. -- Ecosystem restoration of the landscape scale: assessing conservation success at the Efroymson Restoration at Kankakee Sands / JA Shuey, CH O'Leary. -- Water quality in streams of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve: inferences from chemical, physical, and macroinvertebrate data / WM Rizzo, GD Willson, JF Fairchild. -- Reed canary grass control (displacement by a diverse native-species mix) / C Kurtz
The effects of tallgrass prairie restoration on soil quality indicators / VL McKinley, R Wolek. --The control of the nitrogen cycle as a mechanism for the self-organization of prairie ecosystems / NS Allen, SH Emerman. -- Comparison of managed cemetery and unmanaged railroad mesic prairie remnants in central Illinois / EA Corbett, GA Corbett. -- The vascular plant community composition of three fens in the Sandhills of Nebraska / M Borgmann Ingwersen, J Jonas. -- Flowering phenology of Cajun Prairie plants / CM Allen, MF Vidrine. -- Shade tolerance of Festuca paradoxa desv., a cool-season grass native to North America / N Navarrete-Tindall, NL Mechlin, JW Van Sambeck. -- Genetic variation in two prairie plant species populations: a comparison of native remnant populations and populations derived from collected seed / CA Hilker, JE Jurgenson. -- Western prairie fringed orchid: its status, ecology, and in vitro propagation / J Sharma, JW Van Sambeek, CJ Starbuck. -- Foraging ecology of selected prairie wildflowers (Echinacea, Liatris, Monarda, and Veronicastrum) in Missouri prairie remnants and restorations / RR Clinebell II. -- Observations on the status of the Dakota skipper at Prairie Couteau in Pipestone County, Minnesota / DW Schlicht. -- Tebenna silphiella (Grote, 1881) (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae): a prairie moth is rediscovered in Wisconsin and Illinois / EH Metzler, RA Henderson, LA Ferge