12/23/2015
The ISU Graduate College included our prairie in their new virtual tour of campus! Check out the 360 degree panorama here.
Iowa State University Graduate College Check out this virtual experience!
Oakridge Research and Education Prairie
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With ISU, Iowa DOT, and TogetherGreen, grad students Brent Mortensen, Lauren Sullivan with Stan Harpole present the FB page for Oakridge Prairie!
Oakridge is a carefully planned and invented ecological experiment as well as a top-notch example of what prairie reconstruction would look like. Oakridge Research and Education Prairie, funded in part by TogetherGreen, invites the Ames community to get involved with the Prairie as we discover new things about prairie plant seed dispersal, herbivore activity in this biome, and also how prairie pla
12/23/2015
07/24/2015
Caught these voles, along with a bunch of their friends, eating some seedlings we planted yesterday. So far it seems like a really good year for these guys, vole numbers have been abnormally high at Oakridge. Anyone else been seeing them around?
06/27/2015
Showy ticktrefoil and hoary verbena are starting to bloom along with wild rye, porcupine grass, side oats grama, and sunflowers. Looks like big blue stem will be soon to follow...
06/16/2015
Black-eyed Susan and purple prairie clover are in bloom at Oakridge, soon to be followed by yellow cone flower! Have you seen anything flowering lately? Leave a note in the comments with wildflowers you've seen in bloom anywhere in central Iowa.
04/16/2015
The ISU mammalogy class, taught by Mike Rentz, came out to Oakridge this week to monitor small mammal populations. For this time of year, there seems to be a good number of critters that made it through the winter: saw plenty of field and harvest mice and a handful of prairie voles.
07/16/2014
Flowers are blooming at Oakridge; come check it out!
05/28/2014
Top photo was taken in August, 2013; bottom photo was taken in May 2014.
Spring is giving way to summer and things are coming back to life at Oakridge. Won't be long before everything is in full bloom!
04/11/2014
Flyers went out this morning! If you're curious about what is going on at Oakridge, come to our Community Q&A meeting Saturday April 19 at 10:00am
04/01/2014
We will be hosting another Community Q&A Meeting on Saturday, April 19 at 10:00 am in the Applied Sciences 2 building on Iowa State's Campus.
This meeting is a great way to ask questions about what we are doing at Oakridge, learn about the results of our research, or learn how you can get involved.
Check out our recent KHOI radio interview for some information about the work at Oakridge, and the announcement of the meeting http://khoifm.org/node/689
Prairies With Carl Kurtz | KHOI The program discusses Prairie planting by conservationist Carl Kurtz. Graduate student Lauren Sullivan explains her graduate level prairie project and the environmental outreach built in to its design. Lloyd Crim provides a synopsis of his scheduled prairie walks this summer at Doolittle Prairie Pre...
01/28/2014
Lauren will be presenting on some of the exciting research conducted at Oakridge at the Iowa chapter of The Wildlife Society Winter Meeting on Thursday, Feb 20 from 8:50-9:10. The meeting will be held at the Quality Inn and Suites in Ames IA. We encourage you to attend if you are interested in herbivore effects on seed dispersal! See the IWS flyer for details on registration, and let us know if you have questions!
01/10/2014
The freezing mist made for some great sights at Oakridge Prairie this morning.
07/26/2013
Our new sign is up! We're official!
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