Daryl Smith posted this on another listserv.

 

Cedar Hills Sand Prairie Walk


      A Prairie Walk on June 2nd at Cedar Hills Sand Prairie is being hosted

by the Cedar Prairie Group of the Sierra Club, Iowa Prairie Network 
Region 3, and Friends of the Tallgrass Prairie Center at UNI. 
      Cedar Hills Sand Prairie is an 80-acre upland prairie underlain 
with eolian (wind-blown) sand.  The site is a diverse mixture of 
several prairie plant communities: dry prairie, mesic prairie, wet 
prairie and a fen.  Thirty-five acres of the prairie has never been 
plowed and the remaining acres have been undergoing succession back to 
prairie for the past thirty years. The walk will be led by Daryl Smith 
assisted by Bruce Stiles. Please join us for this outing to enjoy the 
spring wildflowers and the cool season grasses. It was a late spring, now
everything 

is coming on like gang busters.  We will also discuss the origin of the
prairie and 
the recent history of the area. 
      Plan to meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Thunder Ridge Mall parking lot in 
Cedar Falls and car pool/caravan to the prairie. For those who wish to 
join the group at the site at 9:45 a.m., Cedar Hills Sand Prairie is located

at the intersection of Butler and Mark roads. Park on the east side of 
Butler Road south of the intersection near the west entrance.  Bring water,
sun 

screen and insect repellant. 

 


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