Two land restoration projects at Mississippi Valley Conservancy’s Plum Creek Conservation Area have been made possible by a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program.
The first project was to plant 11,200 trees at the property in Crawford County in May 2024. An upcoming project will be to convert 172 acres of row crop into prairie plants. The goal is to increase diversity and restore the land to how it was before European settlement in the area.
In addition to these projects, the Conservation Reserve Program will also provide annual support over the next 15 years to help fund ongoing maintenance of the land.
“Increasing the biodiversity on one property will cause kind of a domino effect onto the neighboring properties and everybody’s biodiversity and ecosystem health will ultimately be improved,” said Payton Lott, a restoration coordinator at Mississippi Valley Conservancy.
Read more in Mississippi Valley Conservancy’s blog article and News8Now’s story.
Photo by Mississippi Valley Conservancy.
