PRAIRIES NEED YOUR CARE
Save Your Local Rare HabitatsPrairies evolved with humans and rely on our continual stewardship. We can save these rare places and the abundant life they support with help from caring people like you.
Photo of tiger swallowtail butterflies on blazing star by Prairie Bluff Chapter member Gary Shackelford.
PRAIRIES NEED YOUR CARE
Save Your Local Rare Habitats
Prairies evolved with humans and rely on our continual stewardship. We can save these rare places and the abundant life they support with help from caring people like you.
Photo of pale purple coneflower by Prairie Bluff Chapter member Gary Shackelford.
Less than 1% of native prairie and savanna ecosystems exist today.
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Glacial Prairie Chapter picnic. Photo by Jessica Bizub.
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Students seed collecting at Moely Prairie by Amy Chamberlin.
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Volunteers conducting a prescribed burn on a private landowner’s bluff prairie by Gabe Erickson.
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Left to Right: pale purple coneflower by Gary Shackelford; Joe-pye weed at Thomas Wet Prairie by Kristin Westad; rattlesnake master by Blossom Ramos; Michigan lily by Eric Volden.