Saturday, August 16
10:00am – 12:00pm
with Paul MacNellis
Location: 5455 South 1st Street, Kalamazoo
KAWO members so enjoyed the trip to the Moraine Meadows last summer that we’re heading back again! The Moraine Meadows 20-acre savanna is a collaborative effort between five neighbors. It is located on 1st Street about five miles west of Kalamazoo. US Fish and Wildlife gave us a grant in 2015 through their Landowners Incentive Program to create the prairie/savanna from the old field, previously part of a large brome grass farm.
After prepping the acreage, it was burned and seeded (22 forbs and 8 grasses) in spring of 2016. It has been burned twice since then. Once in 2020 and the most recent in May 2024.
The plant recovery has been excellent.