Places We Protect
 

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Map Legend
The map depicts the preserves that The Nature Conservancy currently owns or leases as well as our priority landscape project areas. Not depicted are a number of conservation easements. Also not depicted are properties that the Conservancy protect but does not currently own or manage.

 

 

Download a high-resolution map of the Conservancy's projects and preserves in Iowa (PDF).
Learn more about the various habitats and natural communities that make up the landscape of Iowa.
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Iowa Regions
Driftless Area
Grand River Grasslands
Little Sioux Valley
Loess Hills
Lower Cedar Valley
Upper Mississippi River

Iowa Preserves
Ames High Prairie/Pohl Memorial Preserve
Behrens Ponds & Woodland
Berry Woods
Bluebell Hollow
Broken Kettle Grasslands
Browns of Ruthven Prairie
Boone River
Buffalo Slough
Cedar Hills Sand Prairie
Crossman Prairie
Finch Memorial Forest
Folsom Point Preserve
Freda Haffner Preserve
Gray-Hart Memorial Preserve
Greiner Family Nature Preserve
Hanging Bog
Hoffman Prairie
Kaufmann Avenue Prairie

Knapp Prairie

Lock & Dam #14 Eagle Area

Fred Maytag II Family Preserve
Medora Prairie
Mori Prairie

Mountain Maple Hollow
Pike Run Creek

Red Cedar Woodland

Retz Memorial Forest

Roggman Boreal Slopes
Sioux City Prairie
Swamp White Oak Woodland
Williams Prairie