The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest
By  Daryl Smith, Dave Williams, Greg Houseal, Kirk Henderson
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The Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa has put together this comprehensive guide to prairie restoration. It is straightforward and easy to read. All types of prairie plantings are addressed, from small home landscaping projects where the goal is natural beauty and low maintenance landscaping, to large conservation plantings. This book is recommended to anyone who is just embarking on a prairie restoration adventure or to anyone who has been struggling with a prairie restoration project for some time.

Aside from a step-by-step approach to planting a prairie, there is additional detailed information on seed collecting and cleaning, and also seedling propagation and transplanting.

They acknowledge that each kind of prairie planting is unique and they detail the challenges of planting such situations as prairies in public places and roadsides and erodible sites.