Other Web Sites of Local Interest
An appendix to
The Sierra Club Guide to
Natural Areas in and around Iowa City
This page is
currently under development!
An Unsorted List
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The Great North American Prairie Ecoregion Page
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The Mississippi Basin Ecoregion Page
- The rivers of the Mississippi basin and the uplands of the Great
North American Prairie provide Iowa City's environmental context.
The web pages describing these regions are provided as part of
the Sierra Club's
Critical Ecopregion Program .
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The Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois
- Kenneth R. Robertson of the Illinois Natural History Survey has
produced this well-illustrated introduction to the tallgrass prairie.
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Heyne Custom Seed Services Prairie Wildflower Page
- This commercial service offers southwestern Iowa local ecotype
prairie seed, and their web page includes an excellent index of
other prairie related resources on the web.