Doug Leier: UND student uses high-tech monitors to track bird comeback on restored prairie

Doug Leier: UND student uses high-tech monitors to track bird comeback on restored prairie

WEST FARGO – You don’t have to be a biologist or range scientist to see how the land use of grasslands in North Dakota has changed. Ashlyn Herron, a UND biology graduate student, is using technology to determine if high-quality grassland habitat restoration through the Meadowlark Initiative is successfully occurring. The Meadowlark Initiative is a statewide strategy that teams landowners, conservation groups, scientists and others to enhance, re…