Prairie Fescue Replanting Project

"Prairie Fescue Replanting Project" - Cremona AB
- aired on CBC TV May 11, 2009
A company called Eastern Slopes Rangeland Seeds does a booming business raising rough fescue grass which is in high demand by oil companies trying to reclaim land after drilling and pipeline projects. Steve Tannas talks about their increase in business over the last few years raising fescue in their greenhouses. Dana Bush, of the Alberta Native Plant Council, applauds the project but raises concerns about competing grasses coming in on the tires of off-road vehicles and construction equipment, out-competing native plants. Tannas says that rough fescue is very good at storing carbon deep underground and is optimistic about the success of replanting projects.

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Education

Tags:

• rough
• fescue
• replanting
• wild
• grasslands
• underground
• carbon
• storage
• Steve Tannas
• Dana Bush
• oil
• industry