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Established by the United States Congress in 1908, the National Bison Range is a wildlife refuge located in northwestern Montana within the Flathead Indian Reservation. It protects a herd of American bison across roughly 18,000 acres of native Palouse prairie, grasslands, and forests. In 2020, the f...

Tom McCall Preserve is a protected natural area in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, near the community of Rowena. It is named for Tom McCall, who served as governor of Oregon, and is known for its native grasslands, bunchgrass slopes, and seasonal displays of wildflowers. The preserve provides habitat...

Table Rock Preserve is a protected natural area in Oregon managed by The Nature Conservancy. It occupies a prominent basalt mesa overlooking the surrounding valley and preserves native grasslands, oak savanna, and associated prairie vegetation, making it relevant to visitors interested in Pacific No...

Zumwalt Prairie is a high-elevation grassland located in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon. It is the largest remaining tract of native bunchgrass prairie in North America. The Nature Conservancy has protected significant portions of the prairie to conserve its ecosystem. The area support...

The Palouse Prairie is a native grassland ecosystem of eastern Washington and adjacent northern Idaho in the Pacific Northwest. It developed across rolling hills of wind-deposited loess and historically supported perennial bunchgrasses, wildflowers, and associated wildlife. Most of the original prai...

Bald Hill Natural Area is a conservation site near Corvallis, Oregon, where native prairie and Oregon white oak savanna form the main habitat types. Management of the area includes the protection or restoration of these open ecosystems, which have been reduced across the Willamette Valley and provid...

The Palouse Steppe is a temperate grassland ecoregion located in the northwestern United States, primarily across eastern Washington and parts of northern Idaho. It is distinguished by rolling loess hills formed by wind-deposited silt and by some of the world's most fertile agricultural soils. Histo...

Crooked River National Grassland is a federally managed landscape in central Oregon covering more than 100,000 acres of grassland, shrubland, and canyon terrain. Administered by the United States Forest Service as part of the Deschutes National Forest, it supports grazing, wildlife habitat, recreati...