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This event is family friendly and open to everyone! The Kansas Native Seed Team partners will lead volunteers in seed collection efforts. If you plan on attending, please RSVP here:
we will be clearing invasive and woody plants from the remnant prairie at the park, primarily targeting invasive black locusts. Please RSVP by filling out this form (https://forms.gle/v1o5q1eKvnnYG14L9) so that we have an accurate count of how many people plan to attend. We will send an email reminder before the workday and will contact you if we need to reschedule the event due to weather or other circumstances.
Now that the Black Jack Gate has been installed, we are raising funds to landscape around the gate. We plan to add a pollinator garden! If you'd like to donate to this fund, please be sure to add a note to your donation! www.blackjackbattlefield.org/donate
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Black Jack is ready to make history again! We have raised 93% of our $2.1 million dollar goal to build a visitor center and adjacent parking lot, and to restore the battlefield to tallgrass prairie.
About
Black Jack Battlefield and Nature Park is a non-profit organization devoted to preserving and sharing the history of the Battle of Black Jack, Pearson Farmstead, woodland nature trails, and restored native prairie area. We are located east of Baldwin City, Ks on 56 Hwy at 163 E 2000 Road, Wellsville, KS 66092
Projects
Help us preserve the Pearson house and restore the prairie. Whether a novice or seasoned professional, Black Jack can use your skills as a volunteer. Our volunteers regularly help us with park clean up, general maintenance, or perhaps a special project we are planning. To learn more about helping at Black Jack, click below.
Donate
Your time and charitable giving are greatly appreciated. Black Jack is one of only a few non-profits in Kansas that can boast that less than 10 percent of our donations go toward operating costs. This means that your contribution is going directly into action and helping maintain and preserve the Battlefield, prairie and history of our site.
Becoming a member is easy! Click the Become a Member link below and you can begin your membership with a secure payment through Paypal.
Membership Levels:
Student - $10.00 - Non Voting Member
Individual - $35.00
Supporting - $50.00 - $99.00
Sustaining - $100.00 - $249.00
Patron - $250.00 - $999.00
Benefactor - $1000.00 and up
Lifetime Member - $2000.00
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Prairie Restoration and Management
Prairies have historically been sustained by the disturbance mechanisms of fire and grazing. Fires set by lightning or Native Americans would burn for long distances before going out and grazers including bison, elk, and deer would feast on the lush green growth that followed.
These processes of disturbance kept trees and shrubs from invading the prairie ecosystem where it has dominated the Great Plains landscape for 10,000 years since the last ice age. But times have changed. Due to a highly fragmented landscape, fires now must be prescribed by people and grazers now are mostly represented by area-restricted cattle. Mowers and swathers help simulate both of these activities too. The key now is that people must purposefully implement disturbance regimes of fire and/or cutting in order to resist the invasion of woody plants and restore/maintain prairie plant communities dominated by grasses, hedges, and wildflowers.
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