Tool Library
Members of TAP enjoy access to the Tool Lending Library at which tools and equipment may be reserved and checked out for ecological restoration
How it works…
Become a Member
Select a Tool
Reserve dates
Pickup and Return

Auger
Free to members
Use: Tool used for drilling transplant holes. Almost always better than a shovel for digging. Always better for your back
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Weed-eater
Free to members
Use: Clear out hard to reach and small places. Cut target to dirt before planting
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Clippers
Free to members
Use: Trim woody vegetation too thick for weed-eaters
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Shovels
Free to members
Use: For digging holes and moving dirt
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Germination trays
Free to members
Use: Sowing seeds. These shallow trays are specifically designed for the germination and seedling phases
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Plug trays
Free to members
Use: Deeper, individually celled trays. Transplant seedlings with 2 or more true leaves from germ. trays
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Germination mix – Dirt
Free to members
Use: Special medium to best facilitate germination and immature plant health
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Bark mix – Dirt
Free to members
Use: Medium used for plug trays. Allows for proper moisture control and aeration
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Mobile Watering Tank
Free to members
Use: These large tanks are used to water plants at sites that may not be close to a water source
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Trimmer Mower
Free to members
Use: Clear overgrown areas
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Prairie Wildflower Field Guide
Free to members
What's Inside?
Detailed and user-friendly descriptions of wildflowers, weeds, and shrubs, identification techniques, history, and more!
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Tall Grass Prairie Wildlfower Guide
Free to members
What's Inside?
Wildflower guide to the plains from Manitoba to Texas. This newly formated version includes updated names and new photographs. This guide also includes some traditional, Native American.
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Common grasses of OK, KS, and NV Field Guide
Free to members
What's Inside?
This guide provides readers with “finding lists” which allow users to quickly navigate to identification of an unknown grass. Descriptions written in clear and easily understood terms focus the primary characteristics of each species and are accompanied by distribution maps.
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Wildflowers and Grasses of KS Field Guide
Free to members
What's Inside?
An in-depth, must have field guide for anyone doing identification work in Kansas. Many of these Kansas species can also be found in Oklahoma. High definition and colorful pictures found in this guide are very helpful for ID
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Guide toPrairie Reconstruction
Free to members
What's Inside?
Manual of particular use to landowners conservation agency personnel, ecosystem managers, and prairie enthusiasts that details conservation plantings, prairie recovery, native landscaping in yards and schools, pasture renovations. Together, the authors have over 100 years of experience in prairie restoration.
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Guide to Starting Vege, herbs, and flowers from seed
Free to members
What's Inside?
This book offers practical, concise advice advice for managing seedlings indoors and out, and developing schedules that ensure your seedlings are ready to plant when the weather is right.
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Ecology and Management of Prairies
Free to members
What's Inside
Intended for land owners as well as farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and all those with a strong interest in grasslandsHelzer’s readable and practical manual educates prairie land owners and managers about grassland ecology and gives them guidelines for keeping prairies diverse, vigorus, and viable.
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Botany in a day: Plant identification guide
Free to members
What's Inside?
A one-day tutorial that introduces eight of the world’s most common plant families, applicable to more than 45,000 species of plants. Master these patterns and have the skills to recognize an astonishing number of plants on any continent.
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Tallgrass prairie center guide to prairie restoration
Free to members
What's Inside?
Focusing on conservation planting, prairie recovery, native lanscaping in yards and at schools, roadside plantings, and pasture renovations the authors of this guide-who have collectively over 100 years of prairie restoration experience-have created a manual usueful for anyone interested in grasslands. A wealth of in the field photographs, checklists, and tables support the detailed text.
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Tallgrass prairie center guide to seed and seedling identification
Free to members
What's Inside?
This illiustrated guide to seeds and seedlings will ensure that everyone from urband gardeners to grassland managers can properly identify and germinate 72 species of tallgrass wildflowers and grasses of the Upper Midwest to Oklahoma. Pictures and precise text throughout the guide make the content manageable.
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The Prairie in Seed: Identifying seed-bearing plants in Upper Midwest
Free to members
What's Inside?
Many can identify flowers in bloom, but not as readily in fruit or seed. This field guide is a must for those who wish to become more familiar with prairie plants or collecting seed for prairie restorations or reconstructions. This guide focuses on identifying dormant plants and seeds and advicer for seed harvesting/cleaning.
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