Grassland Heritage Foundation Newsletters
The Grassland Heritage Foundation Newsletter connects you with prairie and native plant-related events in northeast Kansas, volunteer opportunities, research, project, and policy updates, and native plant gardening and restoration resources.
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2025
Spring: Plant sale, prairie soil microbes, big bluestem, new board members
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2024
Spring: Plant sale, new board members, Sustaining Prairie recipient reports
Summer: Prairie Park restoration, fall plant sale, Chris Helzer talk
Fall: 2024 Annual Report, planting natives vs. "nativars", bee nesting habitat
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2023
Spring: Plant sale, scholarship and Sustaining Prairie recipients
Summer: Prairie Park incident updates, fall plant sale, threats to pollinators
Fall: 2023 Annual Report, scholarship opportunities, Prairie Park updates
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2022
Spring: Plant sale, Free State prairie, 2022 scholarship recipients
Summer: Prairie Park project, monarch status update, Black Jack wrap-up
Fall: 2022 Annual Report, prairie reconstruction at Emporia State University
2021
Spring: Plant sale, prairie monoliths, new garden project
Summer: Fall events, effect of season on prairie burns, fall garden prep
Fall: 2021 Annual Report, native bees and bison, board updates
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2020
Spring: Plant sale, new Program Director, scholarship announcements
Summer: Black Jack Battlefield, remembering Gary Tegtmeier, seed collecting
Fall: 2020 Annual Report, prairie soil microbes, Black Jack project update
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2019
Spring: Insect crisis, remembering Rex Powell, scholarship recipients
Summer: Climate change, green roof study, Leadplant Prairie
Fall: Grassland conversion, 2019 annual report, thanking Frank and Kim
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2018
Spring: Paintbrush Prairie, Johnson County restoration, new board members
Summer: Paintbrush Prairie dedication, teasel, community gardens
Fall: Leadplant Prairie Saved! 2018 annual report, climate change
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2017
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2016
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