Resources

Restoration Contractors

• Wisconsin DNR Contractor List

Brush Management

• Buckthorn Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Bush Honeysuckle Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Multiflora Rose Fact Sheet [PDF]

Bird-Friendly Farming & Grazing

• Grassworks, Inc.
• Continuous Living Cover Manual – Green Lands, Blue Waters [PDF]
• Native Prairie Hay Meadows: A Landowner’s Management Guide [PDF]
• Grassland Birds: Fostering Habitats Using Rotational Grazing [PDF]
• Agricultural Practices that Conserve Grassland Birds [PDF]
• Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Practice Standard for Pasture & Hay Planting [PDF]
• Green Grazing [PDF]
• Ring-neck Pheasant Habitat Requirements [PDF]
• Managing Habitat for Grassland Birds: A Guide for Wisconsin
• Beef, Grass, and Bobwhites

Community Science

• WiBee
• iNaturalist Projects
• The Wisconsin Bumble Bee Brigade
• The Wisconsin Rare Plant Monitoring Program
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Invasive Species Monitoring
• E-Bird
• Christmas Bird Count
• The Great Wisconsin Bird-a-thon

Grassland Birds

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology – All About Birds
• MERLIN Bird ID – app available for iOS and Android
• Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas
• Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance FKA Madison Audubon

Invasive Species Management & Control

• Mowing timetable to suppress weeds [PDF]
• Treatment timetable to suppress weeds [PDF]
• Buckthorn Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Bush Honeysuckle Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Canada Thistle Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Garlic Mustard Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Multiflora Rose Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Wild Parsnip Fact Sheet [PDF]
• Reed Canary Grass Management Guide: Recommendations for Landowners and Restoration Professionals [PDF]
• A Field Guide to Invasive Plants in Wisconsin

Native Prairie

• Pleasant Valley Conservancy – Prairie Remanants

Oak Ecosystems

• University of Minnesota Extension – managing oak and hickory forests
• WI DNR Silviculture Handbook – oak cover type [PDF]
• Forest Community Dynamics (with and without management) on Mesic and Dry-Mesics sites in Southern Wisconsin [PDF]
• Pleasant Valley Conservancy

Plants & Trees

• Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region: A Comprehensive Field Guide
• Wetland Plants of the Upper Midwest: A Field Guide to the Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin
• Invasive Plants of the Upper Midwest: An Illustrated Guide to Their Identification and Control
• Forest Trees of Wisconsin: How to Know Them [PDF]
• PlantSnap – app for iOS and Android

Planted Prairie