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Places We Protect

Use this map or browse the list below to explore our preserves and places we protect in Iowa.

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Major Project Areas

Boone River Watershed
Driftless Area
Grand River Grasslands
Little Sioux Valley
Loess Hills
Lower Cedar Valley
Upper Mississippi River

Driftless Area

Crossman Prairie
Gray-Hart Memorial Preserve
Retz Memorial Forest
Bluebell Hollow
Kaufmann Avenue Prairie

Loess Hills

Broken Kettle Grasslands
Knapp Prairie
Folsom Point Preserve
Sioux City Prairie

Little Sioux Valley

Browns' Prairie
Freda Haffner Preserve
Mori Prairie
Nelson Trust

Lower Cedar Valley

Greiner Family Nature Preserve
Red Cedar Woodlands
Swamp White Oak Woodland
Fred Maytag II Family Preserve

Additional Preserves

Ames High Prairie / Pohl Memorial Preserve
Behrens Ponds & Woodland
Berry Woods
Buffalo Slough
Cedar Hills Sand Prairie
Clausen's Cove
Hanging Bog
Hoffman Prairie
Lock & Dam #14 Eagle Area
Medora Prairie
Savage Memorial Woods
Silvers-Smith Woods
Williams Prairie

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Coast live oak trees punctuate the prairie grasslands at Chimineas Ranch, a protected wildlife corridor linking the Carrizo Plain National Monument with Los Padres National Forest, located within San Luis Obispo County, California. © Mark Dolyak

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