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Dehesa is an agroforestry savanna of southwestern Spain, notable for widely spaced oaks managed for grazing, cork, firewood, and acorn-fed Iberian pigs.
Montado is Portugal's oak savanna agroforestry system, notable for combining cork production with livestock grazing beneath cork and holm oaks.
The Willamette Valley Prairie is an endangered grassland ecosystem in Oregon, historically maintained by Indigenous burning and now reduced to a tiny fraction of its original acreage.
Stone State Park Prairie in Iowa protects significant Loess Hills tallgrass prairie ecosystems spanning the Iowa and South Dakota border.
The Midwestern Oak Savanna is a fire-maintained prairie and oak mosaic in the United States, where less than 2 percent remains intact.
The Prairie Peninsula is an eastward extension of North American tallgrass prairies into the Midwest, an ecological concept first mapped by botanist Edgar Transeau in 1935.
The Willamette Valley Oak Savanna is an Oregon grassland with scattered Oregon white oaks, notable because only about 1 to 2 percent remains.
The Puget Trough Oak Savanna is a fire-shaped Washington grassland dominated by Garry oak, part of a rare ecosystem extending south into Oregon.
Oregon White Oak Savanna is a fire-adapted habitat of the Pacific Northwest, dominated by Quercus garryana and now reduced to a fraction of its former range.
Cross Timbers Savanna is a belt of post oak and blackjack oak from Kansas through Oklahoma to Texas, historically difficult for travelers to cross.
Black Oak Savanna is an open, fire-dependent habitat dominated by black oak, with a notable remnant protected at Illinois Beach State Park.
Somme Prairie Grove in Cook County, Illinois, is a notable preserve distinguished by its ongoing ecological restoration of rare oak savanna habitat.
