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Felton Prairie Scientific and Natural Area in Minnesota is notable for protecting rare sand prairie habitat and vital nesting grounds for prairie chickens.

Langhei Prairie Scientific and Natural Area (SNA) is a nature reserve located in western Minnesota, managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. It protects a remnant of native tallgrass prairie within a region where less than one percent of the original prairie ecosystem remains intact...

Prairie Smoke Dunes Scientific and Natural Area is a protected nature preserve in Minnesota named for the prairie smoke wildflower (Geum triflorum). The site is characterized by its sandy dune topography, which creates a specialized habitat for rare dry sand prairie plant communities. It is managed...

Bonanza Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected native-grassland site in western Minnesota. It preserves a substantial remnant of high-quality mesic prairie, an ecosystem shaped by moderate soil moisture, periodic fire, and grazing, and now uncommon because much of the region was converte...

A Minnesota Scientific and Natural Area in Otter Tail County preserving native prairie within the prairie-forest transition zone of west-central Minnesota.

A Minnesota SNA combining spring-fed wetland and native prairie habitats, protecting rare plant communities associated with calcareous groundwater discharge.

Bluestem Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected remnant of northern tallgrass prairie in Clay County, Minnesota, within the Red River Valley. Its prairie communities grow on level to gently rolling soils and include grasses such as big bluestem, little bluestem, and prairie dropseed alon...

Cottonwood River Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a Minnesota preserve conserving diverse native prairie ecosystems along the river valley.

Located in Houston County, Minnesota, this SNA preserves goat prairie on steep south-facing bluffs alongside Native American burial mounds and rare native plant species.

Blanket Flower Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected nature preserve located in Clay County, western Minnesota. Managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, it safeguards a rare remnant of dry sand-gravel prairie. The preserve is open to the public for low-impact activities...

A Minnesota Scientific and Natural Area named to honor a conservation donor or landowner who helped secure a native prairie remnant for permanent protection.

Oronoco Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected remnant prairie near Oronoco in Olmsted County, Minnesota. It preserves native grassland vegetation in a landscape where much of the original prairie has been converted to agriculture or other land uses. The site is valued for its diversity...

Felton Prairie is a protected natural area in northwestern Minnesota known for dry sand and gravel prairie habitat. The site is recognized as an Important Bird Area and provides habitat for the Greater Prairie-Chicken, a ground-dwelling species that depends on open grasslands and traditional breedin...

Glynn Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected Minnesota site established to preserve a high-quality example of wet mesic prairie and associated native grassland. Wet mesic prairie occupies a position between wet prairie and drier upland prairie, supporting plant communities adapted to rel...

Butternut Valley Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected prairie site in Minnesota. It preserves remnants of native mesic prairie within a river valley, a habitat described as mesic because it occupies relatively moist conditions compared with dry prairie. The designation is relevant to c...

Holthe Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources site that protects a remnant of upland native prairie. Its vegetation includes native grasses and forbs characteristic of Minnesota's prairie region. The designation preserves a remaining example of prairie hab...

Lundblad Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected prairie site in Minnesota within the state's Scientific and Natural Areas program. The designation identifies land managed for the protection of native natural features and provides a formal conservation context for a prairie remnant in the...

Iron Horse Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected prairie site in southeastern Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources describes it as a 34-acre remnant of mesic tallgrass prairie located along former railroad corridors, where native plants survived the conversion of sur...

Malmberg Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a Minnesota preserve managed through the state's Scientific and Natural Area program. It protects a remnant of native prairie whose plant communities represent conditions associated with Minnesota's presettlement grasslands. The site is important as a...

Harry W. Cater Homestead Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a Minnesota preserve containing an intact tract of historic mesic tallgrass prairie. Mesic prairie develops on soils with moderate moisture, supporting a grassland community that differs from both wetter prairie and dry prairie. The pre...

Hythecker Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected prairie site in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources designated it to conserve a remnant of native prairie, including diverse communities of grasses and wildflowers. Its significance comes from preserving native vegetat...

Staffanson Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected prairie site in Minnesota. It preserves a diverse remnant of mesic tallgrass prairie, a grassland community characterized by relatively moist soils and tall native grasses. The site is associated with a glacial beach ridge, a sandy or gra...

Kasota Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected prairie site in Minnesota associated with the Minnesota River Valley. It contains dry hill prairie on limestone-influenced terrain and is noted for native grassland vegetation and exposed rock features. The site is intended for the conservati...

Bicentennial Prairie Scientific and Natural Area in Minnesota is a remnant dry sand prairie notable for its unique flora adapted to the arid conditions of the Anoka Sand Plain.

Clinton Prairie Scientific and Natural Area is a protected prairie site in Minnesota, United States. It preserves a localized example of wet prairie habitat, a plant community shaped by seasonally saturated soils and open conditions. The site provides summer nesting habitat for the bobolink, a grass...