The Sprout Newsletter

2024 Spring

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This issue features NICHES’ conservation and maintenance efforts to improve the health of local ecosystems at nature preserves, including an article updating the reestablishment of prairie in the Wea Plains and NICHES’ aims to continue maintenance to help the prairie species establish themselves. NICHES Stewardship Manager Justin Harmeson praises the success and hard work of the annual hunting program volunteers as they reach new milestones in volunteer hours and species control. Gabriela Sincich is announced as NICHES’ 2023 Volunteer of the Year for her art contributions used in our quarterly Sprout covers, social media, and preserve signage. Finally, NICHES celebrates its highest annual volunteer hours to date at 11,500+ hours.