Working Lands

Mississippi Working Lands

Native Agriculture To InVigorate Ecosystems

Working lands represent one of the best hopes for conservation. Ranches and farms cover more than one billion acres in the United States. Forests, many of which are managed for timber, account for an additional 747 million acres. These working lands add up to more than half of America’s acreage. 

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Have Seed, Will Travel
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Have Seed, Will Travel

This past growing season five farmers harvested four grass species and ten wildflower species, including Switchgrass, Little Bluestem, Slender Mountainmint, and Rattlesnake Master.

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Another Season of Successful Seed Collecting
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Seed Collecting is for the Birds

Volunteers support Audubon's NATIVE Project

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Wildflower Plugs Have Arrived
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Wildflower Plugs Have Arrived!

Prairie wildflowers will soon be sown into production plots in the Arkansas River Valley.

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USDA Invests in Audubon Arkansas’s Work with Minority Farmers
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USDA 2501 Grant

Audubon Arkansas awarded a USDA grant to put working lands to work for birds and people.

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USDA Invests in Audubon Arkansas’s Farm Conservation Work
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Conservation Innovation Grant

Audubon Arkansas was awarded a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant

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Audubon's NATIVE Project
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NATIVE Project Presentation

Audubon’s Native Agriculture To InVigorate Ecosystems (NATIVE) project is training farmers to grow native plants as an environmentally friendly, climate change-resistant specialty crop that provides both income and on-farm wildlife habitat. Income is from the sale of seed to meet the growing demand for locally sourced native warm season grasses and pollinator-friendly forbs needed to restore Arkansas's prairies.

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Natural Areas as Seeds for Restoration: The Arkansas Native Seed Program
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Arkansas Native Seed Program Presentation

The Arkansas Native Seed Program, a collaborative effort of several state, federal, and private conservation partners led by the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, is working to develop commercially available sources of local native plant materials for large-scale revegetation and restoration projects in Arkansas.

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Mississippi Working Lands
Working Lands

NATIVE Project

Working with local farmers to to promote native grasses and preserve ecosystems.

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