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Re: riparian vegetation response summary

Don,

In response to your question about CRP and prairie destruction, I have
consulted with our NRCS person and understand that the establishment of
prairie grasses (warm season grasses) is encouraged by CRP (and WHIP). CRP
applicants willing to establish warm season grasses automatically rank
higher in the environmental benefits indexing process used in evaluating CRP
applications. Those applicants willing to establish warm season grassses
therefore stand a greater chance to be funded than those that don't. Trees
rank the same or nearly the same as the warm season grasses.

NRCS does encourage planting of trees in riparian zones for erosion
stablilization in flood prone areas where prairie plants would not likely
survive the flood events.

Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark MacKay <mark_mackay@hotmail.com>
To: prairie@mallorn.com <prairie@mallorn.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:06 PM
Subject: 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 ôpresettlement vegetation mapsö.  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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