Rainfall and Prairie Establishment

Abstract

beneficial. N one would dispute the fact that adequate rainfall is essential to the success of any prairie restoration. But for years it has been my assumption that, at least here in eastern Iowa, normal rainfall is ordinarily adequate to ensure the success of a restoration planting--after all, the prairies grew here naturally. Dr. Peter Schramm at Knox College not far from here in north-central Illinois expressed essentially same opinion over thirty years ago: