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riparian vegetation response summary

Thanks to all who responded to my question regarding riparian 
vegetation.

Here is a summary of the responses I received.


Suggested readings:

Schoolcraft's  Travels into Arkansas


Other notes of interest:

Numerous states (Wisconsin was the example given) and other areas have 
benefited from reconstructed “presettlement vegetation maps”.  However, 
these are often historic rather than true presettlement maps as many of 
the sources (e.g. GLO notes) were completed after some settlement had 
occurred.

Other sources of information on original vegetative condition: 
-fossil record of pollen grains 
-soils

Interestingly, NRCS won't cost share/CRP in riparian buffer strips if 
they are planted and restored to prairie, they will only cost share 
forest or tree plantings. Seems a shame that our fed govt. is 
inadvertently promoting prairie remnant destruction.

I hope my elaborations are useful and do not detract from original 
messages I received.

Also, as you may have noticed, I only received one suggestion regarding 
literature pertaining to this subject, if anyone knows of any others, 
please do let me know.  As this is really what I am after.

Thanks to:

MJ Hatfield
Donald Miller
James C. Trager 
Laurin Wheeler






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