Lawrence D. Igl Douglas H. Johnson Marriah L. Sondreal Christopher M. Goldade Paul A. Rabie Betty R. Euliss Jill A. Shaffer 2020 <p>The key to Nelson’s Sparrow (<i>Ammospiza nelsoni nelsoni</i>) management is providing dense grasses or emergent vegetation near damp areas or freshwater wetlands. Nelson’s Sparrows have been reported to use habitats with 20–122 centimeters (cm) average vegetation height, 41 cm visual obstruction reading, 40–58 percent grass cover, 24 percent forb cover, 5 percent shrub cover, 13 percent bare ground, and 2–7 cm litter depth. </p> application/pdf 10.3133/pp1842KK en U.S. Geological Survey The effects of management practices on grassland birds—Nelson’s Sparrow (<i>Ammospiza nelsoni nelsoni</i>) reports