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Conservation steward update

For the past several years the foundation has offered a seasonal conservation steward program to accelerate growth for future natural resources professionals. Below, Dawson Porter, a student at Michigan State University, discusses his experience from this summer.

Better burns: Altering the timing and sequence of prescribed fire

Researchers from Grand Valley State University (GVSU) have been conducting a multi-year study to see how seasonal timing and sequence of prescribed burns may affect restored prairies. This marks the first research in the Great Lakes region to investigate multiple rounds of seasonal burns and compare repetitive fire treatments with alternating ones. “Land managers typically conduct prescribed burns in the…