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Ecosystem Restoration
| Ecosystem restoration involves
restoring damaged and mismanaged lands
into beautiful natural areas that
contain their original plant and animal
species. Restoring a natural
ecosystem is much more challenging than
knowing what grows in that ecosystem.
Other factors such as soil type,
elevation, slope direction and percent
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Long Forestry
provides restoration services and
wildlife habitat creation. From
grasslands and forests to watering ponds
and quail tree structures, Long Forestry
can provide you with any of your natural
resource needs.
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Forests
Forests can be both overgrown and
under grown. An overgrown forest is a
stand of trees that has an excessive under
story. Situations like the
 absence
of fire or poor prior management practices can
cause the under story to overgrow, consume
excess water, and shade out other smaller
plants. An under grown forest is typically
the site of a clear cut that did not properly
regenerate. Non valuable and faster
growing trees have out competed the more
desirable trees. By using thinning
techniques, prescribed fire, and invasive
species control Long Forestry can bring back a
healthy and beautiful forest.
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Grasslands |
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Grasslands once covered millions
of acres in Americas heartland.
The entire state of Iowa was once
 nothing
but grassland. Today this
ecosystem is nearly extinct. Most
of Americas grasslands were turned into
farmland in less than 70 years time!
That is the most rapid depletion of any
existing ecosystem known to man.
The diversity of plants in our
grasslands was once comparable to the
diversity of the rain forests.
Long Forestry is helping to bring back
America's grasslands by providing
consultation
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financial assistance and tax breaks, by
replanting the grasses and wildflowers,
and by offering prescribed fire.
Fires could be seen burning miles away
on pre-settlement grasslands.
These fires restore nutrients to the
soils, maintain the grass component by
killing early successional trees, and
even aided Native Americans in herding
wild game. |
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Marsh and swamp areas were once
considered unusable and a nuisance,
since then most were drained.
Today, however, they are realized as
extremely important ecosystems
that provide habitat for many species of
plants and animals and act as natures
water filter. The benefits of
these ecosystems are priceless. By
removing old levees or replacing natural
water retainers, and replacing the
plants that grow in these ecosystems,
Long Forestry is bringing back our
wetlands.
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