Preservation
Only 1% of tallgrass prairie remains in the U.S. today.
Significant preserved areas of prairie include:
- American Prairie Foundation(American Prairie Reserve), Phillips and Blaine Counties, Montana
- Ceresco Prairie Conservancy, Ripon College, Wisconsin
- Clymer Meadow Preserve, Hunt County, Texas
- Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta and Saskatchewan
- Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan
- Hoosier Prairie, Lake County, Indiana
- Jennings Environmental Education Center, Pennsylvania
- Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, Okeechobee County, Florida
- Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas
- Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, in Will County, Illinois
- Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa
- Nine-Mile Prairie, Nebraska
- Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, Alachua County, Florida
- Richard Bong State Recreation Area, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
- Tallgrass Aspen Parkland, Manitoba & Minnesota
- Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas
- Tallgrass Prairie Preserve 32,000 acres (130 km2), Oklahoma
- University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin
- Zumwalt Prairie, Wallowa County, Oregon
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—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
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