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Cayden will tell us about the critical role our native grasses play in keeping the prairies in our Preserve healthy. The vast prairies rife with native plants and grasses that filled the middle of our country up until the 1900s have disappeared because of our need for housing and food. However, we still have hundreds of small prairie pockets of that heritage that can still be seen. And one of those pocket prairies is right here in our Preserve. You might learn some new words to drop casually into conversation – such as glume, lemmas, and ligules.
Cayden is a lifetime blackland prairie resident, an Eagle Scout and Master Naturalist, and a lover of graminids and weird plants. He believes that everyone should participate in the scientific process to learn more about our world. He uses our natural resources responsibly to connect with nature and reduce his carbon footprint.
Recently, he has been experimenting with grass germination, testing at least 63 different species, in various types of stratification. Using this information, he spreads seeds of many grasses (and other graminids) facing local extinction due to habitat loss.
