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Gallery

Two volunteers standing in Prairie Acre as it snows. A tree, the Prairie Acre Restoration Project sign, and stonewall sit in the foreground.

Prairie Acre Burn, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Bob Hagen holds up a dead plant, pulled from the prairie, to demonstrate to a group of students how long its roots are.

Seed Harvest, Fall 2016; Photo Credit: Andy White

A volunteer uses a drip torch to burn Prairie Acre, while it's snowing, in the spring of 2017.

Prairie Acre Burn, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Two students collecting seeds at Rockefeller Prairie in the fall of 2016.

Seed Harvest, Fall 2016; Photo Credit: Andy White

Kelly Kindscher, along with over a dozen other volunteers, plant native plugs along transect lines in Prairie Acre while vegetation is low.

Prairie Acre Earth Day Planting, Spring 2016

KU Field Station crew and volunteers prepare drip torches to use for burning Prairie Acre in the spring of 2016.

Prairie Acre Burn, Spring 2016

Kelly Kindscher and Bob Hagen, along with students and volunteers, stand with hundreds of small native plants during the Prairie Acre Earth Day planting event in the spring of 2016.

Prairie Acre Earth Day Planting, Spring 2016

White smoke rises from a fire climbing up the grassy slope between the south side of the Prairie Acre stone wall and Sunnyside Avenue.

Prairie Acre Burn, Spring 2016; Photo Credit: Andy White

Volunteers plant natives in the demonstration garden, with Prairie Acre in the background.

Prairie Acre Demonstration Garden Planting, Fall 2017

Close up of native seedlings being watered in the greenhouse.

Seedlings in Greenhouse, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Volunteer watering hundreds of native seedlings in the greenhouse during the spring of 2017.

Seedlings being watered in Greenhouse, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Kelly Kindscher speaks to attendees as they sit in chairs and on blankets near Prairie Acre during the Picnic on the Prairie event.

Picnic on the Prairie, 2015

Student volunteer standing in the bed of a truck, uses a pitchfork to toss mulch from the bed of the truck to the front southwest slope of Prairie Acre.

Prairie Acre Expansion Planting, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Volunteers work together to water native plugs that have just been planted in the southeast expansion site of Prairie Acre.

Prairie Acre Expansion Planting, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Bob Hagen uses a white bucket to water seedlings that have just been planted in Prairie Acre near the stonewall.

Prairie Acre Expansion Planting, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

A large group of volunteers stand ready to plant native plugs in the southeast expansion site of Prairie Acre.

Prairie Acre Expansion Planting, Spring 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Volunteers work to plant native seeds in trays inside the greenhouse.

Planting seeds in Greenhouse, Spring 2016

Kelly Kindscher speaks to a large group of people standing in Prairie Acre during the fall 2017 Open House.

Prairie Acre Open House, Fall 2017

Vaughn Salisbury uses a drip torch to set fire to old vegetation in Prairie Acre while it snows.

Prairie Acre Burn 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Attendees gather around a refreshment table to wait for Kelly Kindscher to speak at the Prairie Acre Open House. The Prairie Acre Restoration Project sign sits in the foreground.

Prairie Acre Open House, Fall 2017; Photo Credit: Anne Tangeman

Close up of two drip torches in the snow, burn crew volunteers stand in the background.

Prairie Acre Burn 2017; Photo Credit: Andy White

Students stand scattered across Rockefeller Prairie during a seed harvesting event.

Seed Harvest, Fall 2016; Photo Credit: Andy White

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