2023:
- William R. Norris, Western New Mexico University, $1,150, “An inventory of the Ada Hayden Herbarium (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa) for vascular plant specimens collected in Story County, Iowa (1859-1990)” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Jordan Nikkel (Iowa State University, ISU), Elizabeth McMurchie (ISU), Deb Lewis (ISU), and Bill Norris (Western New Mexico), $827, “Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve Inventory” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Brandon Clough, Story County Conservation Board, $1250, “Mound Cemetery Prairie Remnant Restoration” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
2022:
- Jason Taylor, Bur Oak Land Trust, $1250, “Floristic Inventory for a newly acquired Bur Oak Land Trust Property, Muscatine County” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Jeremy Yost, Hitchcock Nature Center, $1250, “Hitchcock Nature Center Cattle Grazing” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Bill Muhs & Mike Boyle, Cedar County Cemetery Commission, $500 “Restoration of Fairview Cemetery – A pioneer cemetery” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Brandon Clough, Story County Conservation Board, $1250, “Inventory of Cemetery Remnants (4) in Story County” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Amy Crouch, The Nature Conservancy, $830, “Volunteer prairie and savanna rescue tools” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
2021:
- Melanie Schmidt, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, $675, “Supplemental tools for INHF’s volunteer program” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Rod Marlatt, Fayette County Conservation Board, Fayette IA, $1250, “Hackman Tract and Sand Prairie” (land acquisition grant)
- Brandon Clough, Story County Conservation Board, $1250, “Restoration of a Prairie remnant at West Peterson Park” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
- Cassandra Cook, Polk County Conservation Board, $1250, “Yellow Banks Park Savanna habitat restoration” (inventory / restoration / management grant)
2020:
- Megan Lenss and Stratis Giannakouros, The University of Iowa Office of Sustainability and Environment, Iowa City IA, $500, “Ashton Cross Country Course Prairie Signage Project” (education grant)
- Dawn Snyder, Woodbury County Conservation Board, Sioux City IA, $1250, “Woodbury County Conservation Board Prairie Rescue Equipment” (restoration / management grant)
- William Norris, Dept. of Natural Sciences, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM, $850, “Floristic Inventory of Mossy Glen State Preserve, Clayton Co., IA (1994-2020): Final Phase” (research grant)
- Karen Phelps, Benton County Conservation, Vinton IA, $1250, “Benton County Fen Acquisition Project” (land acquisition grant)
2019:
- Cecilia Hagen and Phil DeJarnatt, Iowa County Conservation, $1250, “Inventory of Prairie Remnants on County-Owned Lands” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
- Jason Taylor, Bur Oak Land Trust (Iowa City IA ), $1250, “Land Management Equipment for Invasive Species Removal” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
- Michelle Biodrowski, Hitchcock Nature Center, Pottawattamie County Conservation, $500, “BioBlitz at Hitchcock Nature Center” (education grant) Funded by residual funds from the Iowa Natural History Association.
- Paul Readhead, Friends of Ames High Prairie (Pohl Prairie, Ames IA), $1000, “Management Endowment for Ames High Prairie” (inventory, restoration/management grant)
2018:
- Jennifer L. Stoffel and Scott Figdore, Upper Iowa University (Fayette IA), $1034, “Continued Management of University- Owned Prairie Remnant used for Conservation and Plant Research and Instruction” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
- Melanie Louis, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, $700, “Land Management Kits for Land Ambassadors (Volunteer Program)” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
- Molly McNicoll, Luther College, $760, “Brush Management at Chipera Prairie, Winneshiek County” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
- Veronica Mecko or Rich Erke, Southern Iowa Oak Savanna Alliance, Decatur County Conservation, $250, “Workshops and Education Events in 2018” (education grant)
2017:
- Jack Phillips, Loess Hills Nature School and Golden Hills RC&D, $500, “Bryophytes, Lichens, and Fungi of the Southern Loess Hills” (education grant)
- Mike Fallon, Backyard Abundance (Iowa City, IA), $217, “Fire, Seed & Soil; Exploring the Relationship between Fire and Iowa’s Native Flora” (education grant)
- Amy Yoakum, Story County Conservation, $760, “Prairie lily (Lilium philadelphicum) in a Cemetery Prairie Remnant, Story County” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
- Rob Davis, Whiterock Conservancy (Coon Rapids, IA), $1000, “A Toolbox for Volunteers – Connecting Recreational Trail Users with the Land” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
- Bill Norris, Western New Mexico University, $1000, “Floristic Inventory of Backbone State Park (1994-2017): Final Phase” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
Funded by residual funds from the Iowa Natural History Association - Carl Kurtz and Ryan Schmidt, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, $1000, “Plant Species Inventory of Spring Hill Prairie” (inventory, restoration / management grant)
Funded by residual funds from the Iowa Natural History Association.
2016:
- Tammy Wright, Bur Oak Land Trust (Iowa City, IA), $1,000, “Tool Kits for Bur Oak Land Trust Volunteer Work Crews”
- Michael Cimprich, City of Marion Parks Dept., $1,000, ” Faulkes Heritage Woods Invasive Restoration”
- Penny Perkins, F.T.F. Restoration (Granger, IA), $500, “Using Goats for Ecological Rehabilitation for Invasive Species Management and Replacement of Historical Regimes”
- Jean Eells, E Resources Group (Webster City, IA), $500, “Iowa’s Native Plant Leaders”
2015:
- Victoria Pocius, ISU, $500, “Oviposition Preference and Larval Survival of the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus , on Eight Species of Native Milkweeds”
- Emily Zimmerman, ISU, $500, “Does Diversity Matter? Evaluating the Relationship between Native Prairie Plant Species Diversity on Nitrogen Retention”
- Veronica Mecko, Southern Iowa Oak Savanna Alliance, $250, “Burn Workshop at Springer Woods”
2014:
- Dawn Snyder, Woodbury County Conservation Board, $994, “Woodbury County Conservation Board Prairie Rescue and Safety Equipment”
- Jean Wiedenheft, Indian Creek Nature Center (Cedar Rapids), $1250, “Bena Brook Woodland Restoration”
- Amy Yoakum, Story County Conservation Board, $1170, “Dakins Lake Restoration Project”
- Christine Kaldenberg, Willowwind School, Iowa City, $250, “Community Awareness of Native Plantings”
2013:
- Lee Goldsmith, Brenton Arboretum, $1000, “Natives for Stormwater Management”
- Nick Stoynoff, independent taxonomist, $500, “Digitization of the Putnam Museum Herbarium: Another Step towards a Complete Inventory of the Specimens in Iowa’s Small Herbaria”
2012:
- Philip Bice and Aubrie James, ISU – Dept of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, $500, “Plant Inventory of the Vascular Plants of Anderson Prairie State Preserve”
- Marlene Ehresman, Iowa Wildlife Center, $500, “Bioblitzes to Assess Natural Features of the Iowa Wildlife Center Property”
- Jennifer Anderson-Cruz, ISU – Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, $500, “Evaluation of the Effect of Various Prairie Restoration Planting Methods on the Development of a Diverse Sedge Meadow Community”
- Casey Koht and Pete Kollasch, Friends of Rochester Cemetery, $500, “Funding for Prescribed Fire in Sections of Rochester Cemetery”
NOTE: The grant for prescribed fire in Rochester Cemetery was extended for two additional burns in honor of Professor Diana Horton, long-time friend and member of INPS, who has been a passionate defender of native plants in many ways throughout her life.
2011:
- Peter Eyheralde, ISU – Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, $500, “Role of Bison in a Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction: Seed Dispersal and Small-scale Disturbance”
- Diane Debinski, ISU – Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, $500, “Effects of fire and grazing on reintroduction of prairie violet (Viola pedatifida) to Iowa grasslands”
- Elizabeth Bach, ISU – Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, $500, “Effects of diversity on the prairie experience”
2010:
- Tony Jelsma, Dordt College – Department of Biology, $500, “Genetic Diversity of butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) in Iowa native prairies”
2009:
- Craig Hemsath, Union High School (LaPorte City, IA), $250, “Exploration, Identification, and Recording of the Flora of Southeast Black Hawk County and Adjacent Areas by Union High School Students”
- Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, $1250, “Story County Prairie Acquisition and Stewardship”
2008:
- Chris Anderson, Woodbury County Conservation Board, $644, “Woodbury County Conservation Board Prairie Rescue Equipment”
2007:
- Craig Hemsath, UNI, $500, “Enhancement of a Recovering Native Prairie”
- Kathryn Yurkonis, ISU, $500, “Prairie Plant Distributions and their Consequences for Diversity and Exotic Species Invasion”
2006:
- Lars Brudvig, ISU, $500, “Effect of Restoration on Oak Savanna Biodiversity, Structure, and Oak Regeneration.”
- Glenn Pollock, Independent, $1,020, “Vincent Bluff Savanna Restoration.”
2005 (first year grants were awarded):
- Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, $1,250, “Marietta Expansion and Buffer: A Marshall County Sand Prairie and Fen Acquisition and Restoration Project.”
- Amy Carolan, UNI, $500, “Enhancement of a Recovering Native Prairie”
- Renae Schmitt, ISU, $497, “The Effects of Nitrogen on the Competitive Ability and Establishment of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) versus Native Herbaceous Plants.”