**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** A BRUTAL PARADOX IS THAT SOIL HEALTH IS THE FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY BUT IS OFTEN DEGRADED BY THE AGRICULTURE AIMING TO PROVIDE GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY. RESEARCH IN THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS DEMONSTRATES THAT INCORPORATING SMALL AREAS OF NATIVE PERENNIAL PLANTS ONTO FARMS CREATES DISPROPORTIONALLY LARGE BENEFITS ON THE LANDSCAPE. THIS SIZE-ASYMMETRY INDICATES THAT EVEN SMALL PLOTS OF NATIVES CAN HAVE LARGE BENEFITS TO SOIL HEALTH. THIS PREVIOUS RESEARCH INCORPORATED MIXED-SPECIES PLANTINGS WHICH PROVIDE LESS HARVESTABLE OR MARKETABLE OUTPUTS COMPARED TO MONOCULTURE PLOTS. THEREFORE, THIS RESEARCH WILL BUILD ON PREVIOUS RESEARCH TO INVESTIGATE IF SMALLER PLOTS OF MONOCULTURE NATIVE PERENNIALS ALSO SIMILARLY BENEFIT ON SOIL HEALTHTHE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO IMPROVE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION BY INCREASING KNOWLEDGE OF THE EFFECT OF PERENNIAL NATIVE PLANT MONOCULTURES ON SOIL HEALTH. ADDITIONALLY, WE WILL GAIN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE IMPACTS OF NATIVES ON SOIL HEALTH CHANGE OVER TIME AND SPREAD WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE PLOTS. WITH THIS NEW KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, WE WILL EVALUATE A NEW AGRICULTURE PRACTICE (INCLUDING MONOCULTURE PLOTS OF NATIVE PERENNIAL PLANTS AS PART OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE PORTFOLIO) WILL IMPROVE SOIL HEALTH.