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Once initial restoration tasks are completed, then long-term management ensues. Long- <br />term management includes tasks that are required to be done periodically to maintain a <br />healthy native plant community. Table 4 lists these tasks with associated cost estimates. <br />Table 4. Long -Term Management Schedule and Cost Estimates <br />* Items with air as}er lsk are lower priority and should be undertaken only if funds and logistics <br />allow. <br />Friends of the Mississippi <br />75 <br />W.H. Houlton Conservation Area NRMP <br />Cost/ <br />Cost <br />Season <br />Units <br />Activity <br />Acres <br />Ac <br />Est. <br />Burn the prairie units every 3-6 years. Rotate <br />burn units and pair with surrounding 10 acres of <br />60 <br />savanna restoration. To provide refugia, do not <br />(three <br />$5,000 <br />burn adjacent units in consecutive years. Do not <br />units <br />(per unit) <br />burn more than 113 of the prairie in one year. <br />total) <br />Spring or fall <br />Units 1, 2 <br />Rotate bums from spring to fall. <br />Monitor and manage for invasive herbaceous <br />141 <br />300 <br />$42,300 <br />Fall <br />Unit 1, 3 <br />and woody species. <br />Monitor ash for EAB, bur oaks for Oak Wilt <br />disease (July -Aug) and for Bur Oak Blight <br />All <br />- <br />$1,000 <br />July -Aug and <br />(BOB) (July -Aug for leaf necrosis and winter for <br />Winter <br />All <br />marcescent leaves (those that do not drop). <br />Fall, <br />summer, <br />All <br />- <br />$1,200 <br />spring <br />All <br />Evaluation and assessment by ecologist <br />Yearly breeding bird surveys after restoration <br />tasks are complete. Establish citizen science <br />All <br />- <br />- <br />June* <br />All <br />programs MAPS, eMammal <br />Yearly community engagement or volunteer <br />event. Possible events include invasive species All - - <br />removal, prairie seed collection, supplemental <br />Fall* All plantings, etc. <br />$ 59,500 or more (at intervals) <br />* Items with air as}er lsk are lower priority and should be undertaken only if funds and logistics <br />allow. <br />Friends of the Mississippi <br />75 <br />W.H. Houlton Conservation Area NRMP <br />