{"id":493,"date":"2019-09-02T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=493"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:40:58","slug":"military-ridge-york-prairie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/military-ridge-york-prairie\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Ridge-York Prairie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This IBA is located in the midst of one of the most extensive open landscape in Wisconsin\u2019s Driftless Area, and features many streams, hills, ridges, and valleys with the Military Ridge along the northern boundary of the site.\u00a0 Once covered by prairie and oak savanna, this area is now largely agricultural, consisting of cropland, pasture, and idle grassland (mostly CRP fields).\u00a0 Smaller areas of woodland, savanna, shrub, and riparian habitats also are present.\u00a0 The area contains a significant concentration of prairie remnants on slopes and areas of thin soil that were never plowed.\u00a0 Most of the site is in private ownership, save for the York Prairie State Natural Area and several county parks.\u00a0 The Nature Conservancy owns two preserves in the area.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

This IBA harbors some of the best grassland bird habitat remaining in the state.\u00a0 It is one of three focus areas targeted for grassland bird conservation in the WDNR\u2019s Southwest Grassland and Stream Conservation Area, a landscape-scale project aiming to protect functioning grassland, savanna, and stream ecosystems.\u00a0 Many priority grassland birds have high populations here, including Northern harrier, upland sandpiper, Henslow\u2019s sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, dickcissel, bobolink, Eastern meadowlark, and Western meadowlark.\u00a0 Various priority savanna species also breed here in high numbers: red-headed woodpecker; willow flycatcher; Bell\u2019s vireo; brown thrasher; and field sparrow.\u00a0 Short-eared owls occur regularly in winter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Military Ridge-York Prairie, photo by John Dadiman<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This IBA is located in the midst of one of the most extensive open landscape in Wisconsin\u2019s Driftless Area, and features many streams, hills, ridges, and valleys with the Military Ridge along the northern boundary of the site.\u00a0 Once covered by prairie and oak savanna, this area is now largely agricultural, consisting of… [Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}