The Nature Conservancy's Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, near the Kansas border north of Pawhuska on Osage Nation land, is the largest intact tract of tall grass prairie left in North America (40,000 acres).

Lower Table Rock, BLM, Jackson County, Oregon USA

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

Bison crossing, US Mexico border, Nature Conservancy,

This trout lily opened in the afternoon at Nine Times Preserve in Pickens County, northwestern South Carolina.

Taken at the Robert Y. Pratt Preserve in Ebey's Landing National Historic Reserve.

Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum) with its three leaves, three sepals, and three petals blooming on the forest floor before much else has really started to grow.

Lower Table Rock, BLM, Jackson County, Oregon USA

Got to hike with good friends, my wonderful mother and my 22-month old son at the beautiful Falls Ridge Preserve in Ellett Valley, Virginia.

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Dia de los Muertos, Janos, Chihuahua,Mexico

Owned by The Nature Conservancy of Canada

www.natureconservancy.ca/files/frame.asp?lang=e_&regi...

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Bison crossing; US Mexico border; Nature Conservancy, Rancho Uno, Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico, Cindy Tolle, Tutuaca Mountain School

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

Dun Skipper Butterfly

Got to hike with good friends, my wonderful mother and my 22-month old son at the beautiful Falls Ridge Preserve in Ellett Valley, Virginia.

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The most peaceful place I have ever been.

Bloomington, Ind.

Nachusa Grasslands near Rochelle, IL

Lesquerella ovalifolia

Typical habit of this species; helps differentiate it from Spreading Bladderpod (L. gordonii)

Kansas Native Plant Society

Spring Board Meeting

Smokey Valley Ranch

Logan County, KS

Taken in West Alton, Missouri

Learn About American Bison:

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/a/american-bison/

Learn about the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve:

www.nps.gov/tapr/index.htm

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

2016_4_26, kgronostajski@gmail.com, USA LBI NJ

Kenya - Grey crowned crane

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Lower Table Rock, BLM, Jackson County, Oregon USA

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

Upper Table Rocks 04/05/15

Jackson Co., OR

A return to see Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

The Nature Conservancy's Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, near the Kansas border north of Pawhuska on Osage Nation land, is the largest intact tract of tall grass prairie left in North America (40,000 acres).

Seaside Sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus, amid saltmarsh grasses at Nature Conservancy's Texas City Prairie Preserve, Galveston County, Texas, 21 May 2012. Note long bill and golden supraloral spot.