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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 can determine the success of a restoration project.
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.

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 Forestabsence 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.

       Grasslands  
Grasslands once covered millions of acres in Americas heartland.  The entire state of Iowa was once Tallgrass Prairienothing 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 Prairie Wildflowerson 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.
   
         Wetlands  
Marsh and swamp areas were onceSwamp 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.Marsh

 

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