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Crex Sand Prairie State Natural Area is a protected ecosystem in Burnett County, Wisconsin, encompassing jack pine barrens and sand prairie habitats. The area is part of the larger Crex Meadows complex, named after the Crex Carpet Company that operated in the region in the early 20th century. The si...

Brady's Bluff Prairie State Natural Area is a protected ecological zone located within Perrot State Park in Wisconsin. It preserves a dry limestone prairie, often referred to as a "goat prairie," situated on a rugged bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. The environment is characterized by shallo...

Scuppernong Prairie State Natural Area is a preserved wet-mesic prairie located within the Kettle Moraine State Forest in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. The landscape features wetlands and sedge meadows that actively protect the headwaters of the Scuppernong River. It is managed by the Wisconsin Depart...

Avoca Prairie and Savanna State Natural Area is a protected ecological site in Iowa County, Wisconsin. It preserves one of the largest remaining tracts of intact dry-mesic prairie and oak savanna in the Midwestern United States, representing ecosystems once widespread across the region but now large...

Faville Prairie State Natural Area is a protected wet-mesic prairie in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, established in 1952 as one of the state's first prairie restoration sites.

Empire Prairies State Natural Area protects a collection of remnant prairies in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Its scattered sites preserve dry and dry-mesic grassland communities that survived despite the conversion of much of the surrounding region to agriculture and development. The protected hab...

Battle Bluff Prairie State Natural Area is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources preserve located in Vernon County, overlooking the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin. It protects a steep south-facing bluff prairie remnant that supports plant species more typical of the Great Plains,...

Trenton Bluff Prairie State Natural Area is a dry limestone bluff prairie in Pierce County, Wisconsin, noted for its steep topography and rare sun-loving flora.

Morgan Coulee Prairie State Natural Area in Wisconsin protects one of the largest dry prairie remnants in the state's driftless region.

Fults Hill Prairie State Natural Area is a protected site in Monroe County, Illinois, overlooking the Mississippi River floodplain. It preserves the state's largest remaining complex of largely undisturbed loess hill prairie, a dry grassland community formed on wind-deposited silt along steep bluffs...

Five-Mile Bluff Prairie State Natural Area is a protected natural area in Pierce County, Wisconsin, associated with a dry prairie community on a dolomite bluff. Its exposed slopes support plants adapted to shallow soil, strong sunlight, and limited moisture, while the bluff environment also provides...

Kettle Moraine Low Prairie State Natural Area is a protected conservation site situated within the Southern Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest in Wisconsin. The area preserves a globally rare wet-mesic prairie and sedge meadow ecosystem, which thrives on the unique glacial topography of the reg...

La Crosse River Trail Prairies is a State Natural Area located along a recreational rail trail in western Wisconsin. The site protects a series of fragmented dry sand and alluvial prairies that survived the region's agricultural development. It is distinguished by its linear configuration, preservin...

Dewey Heights Prairie State Natural Area is a protected dry-prairie site in Crawford County, Wisconsin, situated on elevated terrain overlooking the Mississippi River. It preserves a remnant of an increasingly uncommon grassland community shaped by exposed bluff conditions and limited moisture. The...

Eagle Centre Prairie State Natural Area is a protected natural area in southeastern Wisconsin that contains wet and wet-mesic prairie habitat. The site includes prairie openings as well as shrubs, saplings, large oaks, mesic draws, and kettles, reflecting a mixture of open and wooded microhabitats....

Belmont Prairie State Natural Area is a 36-acre protected prairie remnant in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, along the Pecatonica State Trail. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources describes it as a mesic to dry prairie containing more than 80 species of native plants, including big and little...

Revis Hill Prairie State Natural Area is a protected loess hill-prairie site in Mason County, Illinois, near the Illinois River valley. The natural area covers roughly 413 acres and preserves one of the state’s larger examples of this distinctive grassland community. Its steep, wind-exposed bluffs a...

Oshkosh-Larsen Trail Prairies State Natural Area is a protected remnant tallgrass prairie in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. It lies along a rail trail and preserves native plant and insect communities associated with the former prairie landscape. The site is notable because a transportation corridor p...

Ripon Prairie State Natural Area is a remnant wet-mesic tallgrass prairie in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, preserved for its population of rare prairie phlox.

Springvale Wet Prairie State Natural Area is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources conservation site in Columbia County, within the Peter Helland Wildlife Area. The 271-acre property includes wet prairie, sedge meadow, calcareous fen, springs, and spring runs along Duck Creek. Its plant commun...

Germania Wet Prairie State Natural Area is a Wisconsin protected natural area centered on wet prairie habitat. Groundwater-fed conditions support wet prairie vegetation and sedge meadows, including plant communities that are uncommon elsewhere. Its value lies in conserving saturated grassland ecolog...

Midway Railroad Prairie State Natural Area is a Wisconsin protected site in Marathon County that preserves wet-mesic tallgrass prairie. The prairie occupies an abandoned railroad corridor, giving the site a distinctive setting shaped by former transportation infrastructure. Its primary ecological si...

Young Prairie is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources State Natural Area, designated in 1977 and numbered 132 in the state program. The 806-acre site in Jefferson and Walworth Counties contains a large wet-mesic prairie, a small stream, associated wetland vegetation, and more than 80 recorded...

Waterloo Prairie State Natural Area is a 221-acre protected site within the Waterloo Wildlife Area in Jefferson and Dodge Counties, Wisconsin. It contains two separated areas of low wet grassland, including a raised calcareous fen and spring complex in the north and a larger wet prairie meadow to th...

Canoe Landing Prairie State Natural Area is a Wisconsin reserve protecting sand prairie along the lower Wisconsin River. Its sandy substrate and river-valley setting support a prairie community adapted to conditions that differ from the deeper, moisture-retaining soils of mesic tallgrass prairie. Th...

Kessler Railroad Prairie State Natural Area is a Wisconsin preserve containing remnant tallgrass prairie along an unmaintained railroad right-of-way. The former rail corridor left an open strip where prairie vegetation could persist while surrounding land was altered for other uses. Its protected st...

Oliver Prairie State Natural Area is a protected dry-mesic prairie remnant in Iowa County, Wisconsin. The term dry-mesic describes grassland with intermediate conditions between dry prairie and more moisture-rich prairie, and the site supports a range of native prairie plants adapted to that setting...

North Bend Wet Prairie State Natural Area is a protected wet-prairie remnant in Wisconsin, located alongside the Black River floodplain. Its significance comes from preserving a grassland community associated with seasonally wet soils within a floodplain landscape, where drainage and land conversion...

Newark Road Prairie State Natural Area is a high-quality wet-mesic prairie remnant in Rock County, Wisconsin, known for supporting diverse native orchids and sedges.