South Texas is no stranger to exotics. We have been dealing with them from as early as 1915. We have come to focus our understanding on the mechanisms for their invasion which has lead us to the details necessary for restoring native vegetation. What has become known as the "South Texas Natives "approach, is the development of an ecologically based strategy and tools for restoring native vegetation in south Texas. We will cover everything from the critical concerns of land use history and site attributes to the seedbed preparation. We will discuss at length the development of the seed mix we use for a successful restoration. For it is the development of the appropriate seed mix that makes our approach unique. We like every mix to contain 8-12 different species with half of those species being early successional. The mix should have perennial grasses along with some forbs and legumes. And most importantly, every species we use is a south Texas ecotype that has been tested, selected and commercialized because of its adaptation to South Texas conditions. It is with this approach that we have had over a 70% success rate in restoring native vegetation on exotic invaded landscapes.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.