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Kankakee Sands is a large conservation and habitat-restoration area in northwestern Indiana managed by The Nature Conservancy. Its landscape includes sand prairie, wetlands, savanna, and restored grasslands within the former Grand Kankakee Marsh region, providing habitat for diverse plants, birds, i...
Hoosier Prairie Nature Preserve is a protected conservation area located in Lake County, Indiana, within the Calumet region. The preserve is distinguished by its rare, remnant assembly of tallgrass prairie, oak savanna, and marsh wetlands, which were historically common in the region before industri...
Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve is a 1,500-acre protected ecological area located in Lake County, Indiana. Officially established as a nature preserve in 1977, it maintains a rare, transitional landscape where tallgrass prairies, oak savannas, and marshlands intersect. The sandy soil of the re...
Located in Ogle County, Illinois, Belmont Prairie Nature Preserve is a dedicated state preserve protecting a high-quality, undisturbed mesic prairie.
Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve in Illinois protects high-quality undisturbed tallgrass prairie sod that survives within the bounds of a historic rural pioneer cemetery.
Sand Prairie Scrub Oak Nature Preserve in Illinois preserves a unique sand prairie and black oak savanna ecosystem situated on ancient glacial river terraces in Mason County.
Prospect Cemetery Prairie is an Illinois Nature Preserve established in 1976 that protects high-quality black soil prairie remnant within an historic cemetery.
