Merchandise

Includes
Trees: black locust, buckthorn, tree-of-heaven
Shrubs: Eurasian bush honeysuckles, Japanses barberry, multiflora rose, olives
Vines: Chinese yam, Japanese honeysuckle, Japanese hops, kudzu, oriental bittersweet, porcelain berry, swallow-worts
Forbs: bird's-foot-trefoil, Canada thistle, celandine, creeping bellflower, crown vetch, dame's rocket, European marsh thistel, garlic mustard, giant hogweed, hedgeparsleys, hemp nettle, hill mustard, hound's tongue, knotweeds, poson hemlock, purple loosestrife, spotted knapweed, spurges, sweet clovers, tansy, teasels, thistles, wild chervil, wild parsnip, yellow star thistle
Grasses: cattails, Japanese stilt grass, phragmites, reed canary grass, tall manna grass

Published by the Wisconsin DNR, this 6 inches x 4.5 inches ring-bound booklet provides information on invasive trees, shrubs, vines, forbs, and grasses.

This guide was adapted from A Field Guide to Invasive Plants of the Midwest by the Midwest Invasive Plant Network (MIPN) and from Minnesota Invasive Non-Native Terrestrial Plants: an Identification Guide for Natural Resource Mangers by the Minnesota DNR.

This guide consists of

• photos and text to describe species including characteristics to aid in identification
• characteristics to tell the invasive species apart from look-alike species
• control information

Note: You can download this guide free from the Wisconsin DNR website: http://dnr.wi.gov/invasives/

$5, includes shipping.

There are few who have taken to heart Leopold’s vision more than restoration ecologist Steven Apfelbaum, who, over thirty years, transformed his eighty-acre Stone Prairie Farm in Wisconsin into a biologically diverse ecosystem of prairie, wetland, spring brook, and forest. In Nature’s Second Chance, the author captures the intimate relationship he has created with the land and shows how the restored farm is serving as a model for the human community around him.

Opening with his very first walk on the farm, this deeply personal account relates how Apfelbaum and his family worked to restore acres of native wildflowers and wildlife on land he found depleted after years of corn farming. The traditional agricultural community around him was at first deeply suspicious, he explains, but most of them came around to Leopold’s beliefs, as lived by the author, after seeing the benefits of restoration at Stone Prairie Farm. Nature’s Second Chance offers unique insights into the biological world, the processes of ecological recovery, and how humans might play a starring role in healing a planet by implementing Leopold’s land ethic, one farm, lot, or brownfield at a time.

$16, plus $2.50 (per order) for shipping and handling.

The guide was written primarily for naturalists, wild plant enthusiasts, and native landscapers. This book provides dichotomous keys to 157 species and beautiful color illustrations (along with detailed descriptions of key characters, habitats, and similar species) for 70 species.

$19, plus $2.50 (per order) for shipping and handling.

The guide enables you to identify common prairie and weed seedlings in the field. The 120 page guide includes color photos and field descriptions for seeds and seedlings of 54 native grasses and forbs, as well as 26 common agricultural weeds.

Each plant has information about its habitat, when it flowers, and distinguishing characteristics.

$16, plus $2.50 (per order) for shipping and handling.

Dave Egan and John A. Harrington, editors

Book - $25
plus $3 (per order) for shipping and handling

CD - $5
plus $2 (per order) for shipping and handling

$20.00, plus $2.50 (per order) for shipping and handling.

Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz provide a comprehensive list of prairie preserves, parks, and remnants in North America.

Price reduced to $2.00, includes shipping and handling.

Gary Eldred has been involved in native prairie protection and management since 1975.  Most of his knowledge about prairies has been gained through hands-on experience and close observation. 

$2.50, plus $1 (per order) for shipping and handling.

Wayne R. Pauly, a Dane county naturalist, describes one style of conducting small prairie fires (1 to 100 acres) using hand-held equipment and a minimum number of inexperienced people.  It is aimed at the novice who has seen controlled burns and wants to know how to conduct one.

$4.00, plus $1 (per order) for shipping and handling.