The Fall 2003 Center for Grassland Studies Seminar Series will be held 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the East Campus Union on the dates below. If you have questions, please call the Center office, 402/472-4101, or e-mail grassland@unl.edu.
    8-25
Martin Massengale, UNL, Center for Grassland Studies 
Introduction to the Seminar (for students taking for credit)
    9-8
Rob Mitchell,  USDA, Agricultural Research Service
“Improving Native Grasses Increases Grassland Production”
    9-15
 Guillermo Norrmann, Instituto de Botanica, Universidad del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina
“Big Bluestems of the Americas: Biosystematics, Hybridization and Evolution”
    9-22
 Ken Vogel,  USDA, Agricultural Research Service
“Biomass Energy: Perennial Herbaceous Crops vs Corn Stover”
    9-29
Steve Chick, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service

“An Overview of the Grassland Reserve Program”
    10-6
Larkin Powell, UNL, School of Natural Resources

“Grazing and Grassland Birds in the Nebraska Sandhills”
    10-13
 Kent Pfeiffer, Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust
“Managing Prairies for the Long Term”
    10-20
 No seminar
    10-27*
 Richard Knight, Colorado State University, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed
“For the Health of the Land: Honest Conversation about Land Use”
    11-3
 No seminar
    11-10
Roch Gaussoin, UNL, Dept. of Agronomy and Horticulture
“Turfgrass Management: What We Can Learn from Our  International Colleagues”
    11-17
 Tyler Sutton, Conservation Alliance of the Great Plains
“Restoring Grasslands Ecologically and Economically”
    11-24
 Wyatt Anderson, Graduate Student, UNL, Dept. of Entomology
“Resistance to Multiple Chinch Bug Species in Four Grass Systems”






* 2003 Leu Distinguished Lecture

Refreshments will be available prior to each seminar, compliments of the Leu Foundation. Videotapes of these seminars and selected seminars from past series will be available for onsite viewing or checkout from 221 Keim Hall.

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