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Register for the 2023 Conference Today!
The Prairie Enthusiasts 2023 Conference – Reverence for the Land – will be held Saturday, February 11, . Join your prairie enthusiasts community in Minnesota this upcoming February – register today!
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A Conference to Address Environmental Change
We watched the world strike for action on climate change last month. As we work for conserving prairie and savanna ecosystems in the region, support is growing for taking better…
Milkweed for Monarchs ’19
This past winter the monarch butterfly populations overwintering in northern Mexico increased significantly for the first time in recent years. The butterflies used over 6 hectares of land at their…
Many Rivers Partners with Educators
By Jim Vonderharr Many Rivers Chapter has recently started partnerships with several educational entities. We were contacted in the spring of 2017 by Amber Gremmels, a middle school science teacher…
Resilience
This introduction to the concept of resilience and how it applies to our prairie restoration work was an article published in the August 2019 Prairie Promoter.Those of us who were…
Seeking Smart People & Smart Phone Photographers
This summer marks my seventh year with TPE and completes our 50th land protection project. One of the special responsibilities that comes along with completing all these projects is the…
Owing Attention On Moely Prairie
Our work helping to restore Moely Prairie, a 23.5-acre remnant sand prairie on the outskirts of Prairie du Sac, has been one big exercise in repaying some of the attention…
Swenson Prairie Protected
On August 30th, The Prairie Enthusiasts achieved a long term goal of both TPE and The Nature Conservancy – the acquisition and permanent protection of two prairie remnants of distinction…
Hanley Savanna Beginnings
NIPE always says that Hanley Savanna was founded in 2003, but its history goes back much further than that of course. I met the landowner, Jim Lewis, back in 1978 when…