Planning is underway for the site’s scheduled burn in spring 2006. Personnel from the Windom office of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will be visiting the PrairieU remnant prairie in the next coming weeks to gather information about the site and how the burn will be performed.

The Fish and Wildlife Service and Department of Natural Resources are teaming up to provide a grant that will support the burn of this site and others throughout southwest Minnesota in the spring of 2006.

Establishing a burn regime at the PrairieU site will enable researchers to determine which native grasses and forbs exist and the site, as well as which areas will benefit most from reseeding native species.