Volume 45, Number 1,
September 1998:
Greater Prairie Chicken Management

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- what is a greater prairie chicken?
- habitat
- managing habitat
- booming grounds
- booming ground survey
- nesting
- broods
- fall and winter habitat
- summary
- decreasers/increasers/ invaders
- jump shooting/pass shooting
- further reading

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Greater Prairie Chicken Management
by Gerald J. Horak and Roger D. Applegate

DECREASERS
- Very palatable climax plants that disappear rather quickly under heavy grazing.

Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi)
Little bluestem (Andropogon scoparius)
Indiangrass (Sorghastrum arvenaceum)
Prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata)
Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides)
Canadian wildrye (Elymus canadensis)
Sunflowers (Helianthus spp.)
Black sampson echinacea (Echinacea augustifolia)
Prairieclovers (Petalostemon spp.)
Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum)
Catclaw sensitive brier (Schrankia nauttalli)
Whole-leaf rosinweed (Silphium integrifolium)
Round-head lespedeza (Lespedeza capitata)
Pitchersage (Salvia azurea)
Gayfeather (Lieatris spp.)
Tickclover (Desmodium spp.)
Illinois bundleflower (Desmanthus illinoensis)
Lead plant (Amorpha canescens)
New Jersey tea (Ceanothus herbaceus)
Priarie rose (Rosa arkansana)

INCREASERS
- Climax plants that increase for a while under heavy grazing but finally disappear under continual heavy grazing.

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Tall dropseed (Sporobolus asper)
Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
Hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsuta)
Buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides)
Western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii)
Panicgrass (Panicum spp.)
Purple lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
Stonyhills muhly (Muhlenbergia cuspidata)
Sedge (Carex spp.)
Pricklypear (Opuntia polyacantha)
Inland ironweed (Vernonia baldwini)
Slimflower scurf-pea (Psoralea tenuiflora)
Goldenrod (Solidago spp.)
Wild indigo (Baptisia spp.)
Western ragweed (Ambrosia psilostachya)
Parthenium (Parthenium spp.)
Willowleaved sunflower (Helianthus salicifolius)
Aromatic sumac (Rhus aromatica)
Buckbrush (Symphoricarpos occidentalis)
Smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)
Grayleaf dogwood (Garrya wrightii)
Blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica)
Post oak (Quercus stellata)

INVADERS
- Plant species that move into an area as a result of change in grassland composition due to overgrazing, lack of fire, etc.

Tumblegrass (Schedonnardus paniculatus)
Windmillgrass (Chloris spp.)
Foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum)
Common pricklypear (Opuntia spp.)
Prairie threeawn (Aristida spp.)
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
Broomweed (Gutierrezia dracunculoides)
Gumweed (Grindelia squarrosa)
Osage orange (Maclura pomifera)