Caption: Landscape architecture professor John Harrington (left), soil science doctoral student Ana Wells (center) and soil science professor Nick Balster (right) measure soil respiration in the former basin of the Beers Dam on the UW-Madison Franbrook Farm Research Station in southwestern Wisconsin. Since 2004, the scientists have been examining the site’s soils and their effect on the interaction between restored prairie vegetation and invasive species. Built in 1960, the Beers Dam was removed in Jan. 2003 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Photo: provided by Wolfgang Hoffman
Date: September 2008
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Caption: Since 2004, landscape architecture professor John Harrington, soil science professor Nick Balster and soil science doctoral student Ana Wells have been examining the soils in a former dam basin in southwestern Wisconsin and their effect on the interaction between restored prairie vegetation and invasive species. Their study site is the former impoundment of the Beers Dam, which was built in 1960 on a spring-fed tributary of Dougherty Creek, Green County. In Jan. 2003, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources removed the dam, located on the UW-Madison Franbrook Farm Research Station, to restore the cold-water stream system.
Photo by: provided by Wolfgang Hoffman
Date: September 2008
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Caption: The former basin of the Beers Dam on the UW-Madison Franbrook Farm Research Station in Green County, Wisconsin, is pictured here three months after the dam was removed in Jan. 2003 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Since 2004, landscape architecture professor John Harrington, soil science professor Nick Balster and soil science doctoral student Ana Wells have been examining the soils in the former basin and their effect on the interaction between restored prairie vegetation and invasive species. The dam was built in 1960 on a spring-fed tributary of Dougherty Creek.
Photo: courtesy of Nick Balster
Date: April 2003
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