My Prairie Pilgrimage will begin in the tallgrass prairie

My prairie pilgrimage will begin at the The Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in NE Oklahoma.  The preserve lies at the southern end of a geologic feature know as the Flint Hills.  The Flint Hills are home to the largest remaining tracts of tallgrass prairie.  The Nature Conservancy and the US Fish and Wildlife Service are working with local ranchers to protect this place where the prairie still survives on a truly landscape scale.

Kansas State University (in association with TNC) maintains a research station at the northern end of the Flint Hills at the Konza Prairie.  Konza is Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and the source of an enormous amount of important research in a broad range of topics about tallgrass prairie.

http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/oklahoma/placesweprotect/tallgrass-prairie-preserve.xml

http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/kansas/placesweprotect/flint-hills-initiative.xml

http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/planning/lpp/ks/flh/flh.html

http://kpbs.konza.ksu.edu/