Special to the Times Vedette
Whiterock Conservancy announced it was recently awarded the Neighborhood Beer Micro-grant on behalf of the Big Grove for Good Foundation. The grant will help fund the Whiterock Conservancy project and further the mission of Big Grove for Good by investing in neighborhoods and communities. Whiterock Conservancy says this partnership will provide opportunities for the public to experience and learn from this rare and unique landscape.
The grant provides significant improvements to the Whiterock team and volunteer safety for habitat restoration capacity that will provide opportunities to increase efforts to restore and preserve Iowa’s natural resources.
Fire is heavily utilized for habitat management at Whiterock. The management of aggressive non-native species through fire will help encourage the growth of a healthy woodland and remnant prairie area with native plant species through these varied methods. These native plant species will boost the quality of contiguous habitat and wildlife at Whiterock and improve the number of species of greatest conservation need in the area.
Whiterock boasts many rare and sensitive communities throughout its 5,500-acre land trust including rare sand prairies, prairie remnants, prairie pothole region and oak savannas. Land protection and management efforts in Iowa should continue to focus on the preservation of rare and sensitive ecological communities, which, in turn, support rare wildlife species.
Call the Whiterock Conservancy office at 712-790-8221 or email executivedirector@whiterockconservancy.org for more information.