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The following is a list of some of the resources that are available to prairie enthusiasts on the Internet.  We will continually update this list, so if you find an interesting one, please pass it along.

 

Links about Iowa's Prairie

Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation Prairie Page

America's Lost Landscape - The Tallgrass Prairie
     Origin of the Prairie

Iowa Ecotype Project

Loess Hills Prairie Seminar

A Photo Interpretation of a Vanishing Landscape - By Gary Tonhouse

Camp Silos - an educational site about the Iowa Prairie

 

Iowa Non-Government Organizations dealing with Prairie

Audubon Society of Iowa

Fossil and Prairie Center, Rockford, IA

Iowa Environmental Council 

Iowa Native Plant Society

Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

Loess Hills Alliance

The Nature Conservancy

The Sierra Club

The Isaak Walton League of Iowa

Pheasants Forever

 

Iowa Biologic Resources

Butterflies of Iowa

Herpetology of Iowa

Iowa Birds and Birding

Iowa Gap Analysis

Moths of Iowa

 

Iowa State Government Organizations

Iowa Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management

The Living Roadway Trust Fund

Iowa Department Of Transportation 

Iowa General Assembly

Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Iowa Association of County Conservation Boards

Iowa Lakeside Laboratory

 

Out of State Prairie Organizations

The Conservation Alliance of the Great Plains

Grassland Heritage Foundation

Illinois Prairie Cemeteries

Land Institute

Kansas City Wildlands

Missouri Prairie Foundation

The Prairie Enthusiasts - Wisconsin and Northern Illinois

Prairies Forever

Prairie Plains Resource Institute

 

Federal Government Sites

US Geological Survey
     Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Natural Resource Conservation Service, Iowa

US Army Corps of Engineers

     Rock Island District (Interior and Eastern Iowa)

     Saint Paul District (Northeast Iowa)

     Kansas City District (Southern Iowa)

     Omaha District (Missouri River Area)

US Fish and Wildlife Service

US Legislative Branch
     Senators
     Representatives

 

Sites about Plants

Ada Hayden Herbarium, ISU Department of Botany

Endangered and Threatened Species in Iowa 

Illinois Plant Information Network

List of Plants for a Native Wildflower-Butterfly Garden

Medicinal Plants of the Prairie    

Midwestern Wetland Flora

Plants National Database 

University of Iowa Herbarium

The Wildflower Page

Wisconsin Vascular Plants, University of Wisconsin Herbarium, Madison

 

Miscellaneous Sites

Making Prairie Paper