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2008/01/01

Organizations Actively Involved in Prairie

Filed under: — Stormwind @ 6:27 pm

In the past, several people have asked me what groups are involved in on-the-ground prairie conservation and restoration.  I thought I would start the list in a blog post, and expand on it as we found out or remembered more organizations.  (We can make a list of advocacy-only organizations in a future post.)

The Nature Conservancy
has done the most work in prairie conservation throughout North America, though nowadays they only seem to get involved in very large, landscape-scale projects (10,000 acres or more) unless a site involves specific endangered species.  I’d like to list specific chapters/states and prairies in a series of future posts.

Regional groups with estimated native prairie acreage protected include:

Know of more?  Post them in the comments!

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