Description
Most original roads in Iowa and Kansas followed existing trails and traversed the tallgrass prairie. As long as prairie was adjacent to the roadside, seed was available to maintain prairie vegetation in disturbed rights-of-way.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Daryl D. (2011). "Native Prairie Roadsides: The Iowa Example," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2011/nature/7
Native Prairie Roadsides: The Iowa Example
Most original roads in Iowa and Kansas followed existing trails and traversed the tallgrass prairie. As long as prairie was adjacent to the roadside, seed was available to maintain prairie vegetation in disturbed rights-of-way.