Volunteer days
Pulling balloon vine, clearing cedar elm, collecting native seed, doing bioblitzes. Dates are shared by email.
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Join the flock
You don't need feathers to help a prairie.
Add observations on iNaturalist
Every photo helps. If you visit on a tour, snap the plants and critters you see and upload them to iNaturalist. Observations from the project area show up in the Stokes Prairie Restoration Project. Even common things count, and unknowns are welcome; the community helps with IDs.
Wish list: little bluestem, Engelmann daisy, switchgrass, prairie wildrye and American basketflower (seeded in 2018, not logged yet), and a confirmed Loggerhead Shrike. Ahem.
Someday: a newsletter, maybe more
Someday we'd like to send seasonal updates from Shrike, and maybe grow this into a nonprofit that helps other landowners restore prairie. That's a dream, not a plan yet.
Tell us you're interested
Shrike says
The easiest way to help? Tell a landowner about Pastures for Upland Birds. More prairie means more bugs, and more bugs means more shrikes.