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The Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in Oregon is a large grassland maintained by The Nature Conservancy that protects a globally unique ecosystem.
Established by the United States Congress in 1908, the National Bison Range is a wildlife refuge located in northwestern Montana within the Flathead Indian Reservation. It protects a herd of American bison across roughly 18,000 acres of native Palouse prairie, grasslands, and forests. In 2020, the f...
Zumwalt Prairie is a high-elevation grassland located in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon. It is the largest remaining tract of native bunchgrass prairie in North America. The Nature Conservancy has protected significant portions of the prairie to conserve its ecosystem. The area support...
The Palouse Prairie is a native grassland ecosystem of eastern Washington and adjacent northern Idaho in the Pacific Northwest. It developed across rolling hills of wind-deposited loess and historically supported perennial bunchgrasses, wildflowers, and associated wildlife. Most of the original prai...
The Palouse Steppe is a temperate grassland ecoregion located in the northwestern United States, primarily across eastern Washington and parts of northern Idaho. It is distinguished by rolling loess hills formed by wind-deposited silt and by some of the world's most fertile agricultural soils. Histo...
Crooked River National Grassland is a federally managed landscape in central Oregon covering more than 100,000 acres of grassland, shrubland, and canyon terrain. Administered by the United States Forest Service as part of the Deschutes National Forest, it supports grazing, wildlife habitat, recreati...
