Excerpt from Into the 21st Century: Homestead National Monument of America Prairie Management Action Plan, 1993-2002 Management actions to date have been largely successful in the restoration of a tallgrass prairie plant community on the original 100 acres. Since 1986, when the first Prairie Management Action Plan was authored, a variety of techniques have been used to restore the land to tallgrass prairie (see Appendix B for a summaryof actions, 1985 Sod transplants from a donor prairie and seeding of native species appears to have been successful in restoring portions of the lowlands to native prairie. Forb seedlings which were transplanted into the lowlands have successfully established vegetative diversity in the area formerly used by Freeman. As a barnyard, However, exotic vegetation continues to be a problem in this area. A combination of fire and manual removal techniques has been used to reduce the number of woody thickets on the upland prairie. Approved herbicide treatments have been used on woody thickets to help control their spread, but the long-term success of these treatments has not been determined. Some small areas of the lowland prairie are still undergoing initial stages of restoration, while the bulk of the area is beginning to require less intense management. A critical element in the continuing process is the need for information provided by inventory and monitoring, on which future management decisions must be based. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.