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SCOPE OF WORK
BACKGROUND
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Midwest Region Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program continues its long tradition of improving habitat on private lands working with local communities. The Midwest Region is part of the prairie plains ecosystem and was once dominated by native tallgrass prairie throughout much of the area, especially west and central. The western expansion of the United States in the 1800s brought forth a need to grow food and fiber for early settlers, meaning much of the historical tall grass prairie landscape was converted to other uses. That large-scale conversion has left only about 1% of the original prairie on the landscape, making it one of the most imperiled ecosystems on the continent. Tremendous opportunities exist in the Midwest Region to restore grasslands and associated habitats, like goat prairies in the Driftless area, loess bluffs along the Missouri River, transitional oak savanna and open woodlands, and native grasslands. Because of declining grassland birds and pollinators (National Priority), and the ecological services native grasslands provide, our call to action is to continue working with partners in places where native prairie and associated habitats can be restored and enhanced, where deep rooted prairie plants can store water and carbon and help reduce erosion, and where ranchers can implement conservation grazing systems that will withstand drought, reduce costs, and improve the health of their herds. These combined actions will contribute to the resilience that our grassland ecosystems once had.
PFW SEED SPECS
Throughout each year, local biologist develops Wildlife Management Agreements with private landowners and conservation partners. Grassland restoration projects involve site prep, seed purchase, planting and follow-on management and maintenance. There are native seed nurseries within the Midwest that are well established and have worked with the US. Fish and Wildlife Service for the past 25 years. They all produce local native genotype seed each state requires for grassland restoration. Depending on the project, field staff will determine dry, mesic, or wet species needed for their specific planting.
Reg 3- 8 state BPA Master Native Grass Species List
| Scientific Name |
| Common Name |
| Agropyron trachycaulum |
| Slender wheatgrass |
| Andropogon gerardi |
| Big bluestem |
| Bouteloua curtipendula |
| Side-oats grama |
| Bromus klamii |
| Prairie brome |
| Carex hystericina |
| porcupine sedge |
| Carex pennsylvanica |
| Common oak sedge |
| Carex vulpinoidea |
| Fox sedge |
| Carex comosa |
| Bristly Sedge |
| Elymus canadensis |
| Canada wild rye |
| Elymus virginicuss |
| Virginia wild rye |
| Glyceria grandis |
| American Mana Grass |
| Koeleria cristata |
| June grass |
| Schizachryium scoparium |
| Little blue stem |
| Scirpus atrovirens |
| Dark green bulrush |
| Scirpus cyperinus |
| Woolgrass |
| Sorghastrum nutans |
| Indian grass |
| Spartina pectinata |
| Cord grass |
| Sporobolus heterolepis |
| Prairie dropseed |
| Sporobolus cryptandrus |
| Sand dropseed |
| Sporobolus aspera |
| rough dropseed |
| Stripa spartea |
| Needle grass |
| Bouteloua hirsuta |
| Hairy gramma |
| Calamagrostis canadensis |
| Bluejoint |
| Hystrix patula |
| Bottlebrush grass |
| Juncus effusus |
| Common rush |
| Tridens flavus |
| Purpletop tridens |
| Carex brevior |
| Shortbeak sedge |
| Carex lurida |
| Shallow sedge |
| Carex stricta |
| Tussock sedge |
| Carex annectens |
| Yellow fox sedge |
| Carex frankii |
| Frank's sedge |
| Carex granularis |
| Meadow sedge |
| Carex bicknelli |
| Prairie oval sedge |
| Elymus riparius |
| Riverbank wild rye |
| Leersie oryzoides |
| Rice cutgrass |
| Bouteloua gracillis |
| Blue Grama |
| Panicum capillare |
| Witchgrass |
| Andropogon virginica |
| Broomsedge |
| Panicum virgatum |
| Switch grass (native ecotype) |
| Panicum virgatum |
| Switch grass (Cave-in-rock var.) |
Switch grass (Dacotah var.)
Switch grass (Forestburg var.)
Switch grass (Shelter var.)
Switch grass (Trailblazer var.)