🌾 Prairie Power: How Grasslands Help Our World 🌎

 🌾 Prairie Power: How Grasslands Help Our World 🌎

Did you know that some of Saskatchewan’s most important ecosystems are made of grass? Temperate grasslands are the most endangered ecosystem on Earth — and they’re right here at home.

Narrated by Chelsea Nyarko, a student from the University of Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability, Prairie Power explores how community science and research are helping restore native grasslands at the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area.

Through citizen science bioblitzes using apps like iNaturalist and eBird, scientists, students, and families work together to document the plants and animals already living in the area. Every observation helps build ecological assessments — the essential first step toward restoring healthy native prairie.

Why native grasslands?
🌱 Deep roots store carbon
🌱 They hold soil in place
🌱 They provide food and shelter for pollinators, birds, and wildlife

Chelsea’s research asks an exciting question:
How can under-used spaces beneath SaskPower transmission lines and above TransGas pipelines be transformed into thriving native meadow habitats?

By replacing invasive smooth brome with diverse native grasses and wildflowers, these spaces could become living classrooms — places to explore biodiversity, ecological succession, and stewardship. Projects like this show that today’s curiosity can become tomorrow’s science.

When we understand the land, we learn how to protect it. 💚

Learn more:
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