Small Changes, Big Impacts: Prairie Conservation Strips
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2014-07-01
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Harris, Mary
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Natural Resource Ecology and Management
The Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management is dedicated to the understanding, effective management, and sustainable use of our renewable natural resources through the land-grant missions of teaching, research, and extension.
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Agriculture in Iowa owes its immense productivity to an extreme trade-off. Once, perennial prairie covered 85 percent of the state, and its deep root network built and held together a fertile topsoil layer many feet deep. Now, more than 85 percent is in agricultural production, with the majority in row crops.
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This is a report of the STRIPS research team, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (2014): pp. 1-4.
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