Waterfowl Production Areas or WPAs consist of wetlands and uplands. Wetlands play an important part in our ecosystem by providing essential food sources for migrating waterfowl such as mallards, pintails, and geese; and shorebirds such as plovers, sandpipers, and avocets. Upland habitat provide vital food sources and shelter year round for upland birds such as pheasants, quail and prairie chickens. Mammals such as white-tailed deer and black tailed prairie dogs also utilize these plains oases.

The term high diversity seeding includes harvesting, processing and sowing large numbers of native species in an attempt to return the plant community as close as possible to its pre-cultivation condition. The term restoration has often been used to describe this same process, but restoring a grassland is not as simple as planting a few native plants.  

Our objective is to manage uplands for warm season, grass-dominated (big bluestem in the eastern portion, and little bluestem in the western portion) plant communities with a diverse mix of other cool- and warm-season grasses, sedges, rushes, and broadleaf forbs.