Prairie - Preservation

Preservation

Only 1% of tallgrass prairie remains in the U.S. today.

Significant preserved areas of prairie include:

  • American Prairie Foundation(American Prairie Reserve), Phillips and Blaine Counties, Montana
  • Ceresco Prairie Conservancy, Ripon College, Wisconsin
  • Clymer Meadow Preserve, Hunt County, Texas
  • Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta and Saskatchewan
  • Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan
  • Hoosier Prairie, Lake County, Indiana
  • Jennings Environmental Education Center, Pennsylvania
  • Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, Okeechobee County, Florida
  • Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas
  • Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, in Will County, Illinois
  • Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa
  • Nine-Mile Prairie, Nebraska
  • Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, Alachua County, Florida
  • Richard Bong State Recreation Area, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
  • Tallgrass Aspen Parkland, Manitoba & Minnesota
  • Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas
  • Tallgrass Prairie Preserve 32,000 acres (130 km2), Oklahoma
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin
  • Zumwalt Prairie, Wallowa County, Oregon

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Famous quotes containing the word preservation:

    “If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.”
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    “The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)