How to use Range Plant Community Guides and Recovery Strategies Manuals for Project and Reclamation Planning in Grasslands

This one day, class-based course will provide valuable context to interpret the results of data collected in the upcoming AEP Conservation Assessments – Strategic Siting and Pre-disturbance Site Assessments for Industrial Activities on Native Grasslands.

Learning Objectives

• Gain a basic understanding of the ecosystem classification concepts for the Grassland and Parkland Range Plant Community Guides.
• Learn how to navigate through the guides to link site conditions, soils and determine plant communities.  Participants will practice on data sets for each of the two classification systems.
• Overview of disturbance risk assessments and strategic siting for grassland plant communities
• Work through development of appropriate mitigation and restoration strategies, linked to types of disturbance, for each plant community discussed.