HOLMEN -- The Friends of the Holland Sand Prairie and Mississippi Valley Conservancy will host an open house and educational day at the Holland Sand Prairie from 9 a.m. to ...

Beside blackberries, I also saw found chokeberry. But I did not find any huckleberry, one of the significant sand prairie plants—along with colic root, yellow-eyed grass and screwstem—found there.

Last year, he made almost 1,400 plant observations in the Corriell Nature Preserve sand prairie. Eighty percent of the species were native. One of them was listed as special concern in Iowa.

The Cedar Hills Sand Prairie, located on North Butler Road between 310th and 320th streets in rural Cedar Falls, is the county’s most noticeable native remnant.

Prairie Dunes is a links-style course that reflects the common traits of rural Kansas, including sand dunes, native prairie grasses, yucca plants, cottonwoods and constant wind. “Prairie Dunes is ...