A note on a continuing Black Belt Prairie restoration effort at Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.

As part of an ongoing effort to restore a Black Belt Prairie site located in Noxubee National Wildlife shelter small numbers of several target species of plants were introduced in May 2002 scaly buds taproots, and seeds of several species of plants were get backed from a highway construction site along Highway 45 near Crawford, Mississippi February 2002 These plants were monitored until August 2002 for suitability for a larger scale introduction. A 90% survival rate of introduced plants was observ

Most of the original Black Belt prairie has been not to be found to agriculture, development, the incursion of Eastern R Cedar (Juniperus virginiana