Raindance Ranch, Privately Owned

Members of the RARE Club at Lincoln meet every week to learn about restoration ecology and grow native prairie plants. This year, we are propagating Nelson’s checkermallow and Bradshaw’s lomatium for spring outplantings at Raindance Ranch. In the fall, the entire middle school took a field trip to Raindance Ranch for a day of restoration in which we seeded 5,000 Kincaid’s lupine seeds, planted several hundred camas lily, mariposa lily, and narrowleaf onion bulbs. Each of these species improves habitat for the endangered Fender’s blue butterfly.

Students from Lincoln rake thatch from a plot they cleared before seeding the area with Kincaid's lupine (Lupinus sulphureus ssp. kincaidii).