This website provides biome-level guidance to increase the capacity for conservation of North America’s Central Grasslands, connecting different efforts across Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Indigenous/First Nations.

Grassland Bird Use of Conservation Reserve Program fields in the Great Plains

Johnson, 2000 in Heard et al., A comprehensive review of farm bill contributions to wildlife conservation, 1985-2000.

Southern Driftless Grasslands: Reference Guide for Farmers and Landowners in Southwest Wisconsin

Becker and Keagy, 2022.

Effects of Management Practices on Grassland Birds

Johnson et al., 2004.

These reports are a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds produced by USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. The focus of these reports is on management of breeding habitat, particularly in the northern Great Plains. By going to this website, you will see a list of grassland bird species for which accounts are available.

West

Growing Grassland Birds: Best Management Practices for Grasslands to Benefit Birds in Wyoming

Wyoming Partners in Flight, 2002.

Sharing Your Land with Prairie Wildlife

Gillihan et al., 2006.

Integrating Bird Conservation into Range Management

VerCauteren and Gillihan, 2004.

Grasslands Beneficial Management Practices Tool

This tool has been created and launched by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to provide resources to ranchers, conservation organizations, and government agencies in North America.

Herkert et al., 1993.

Best Management Practices for Shortgrass Prairie Birds

Gillihan and Hutchings.

Management of Western Forests and Grasslands for Nongame Birds

DeGraff and Tilghman, 1980.