In case someone might be interested, a prairie remnant is for sale in Story County.  It's a potential building site near Ames and Nevada, and is priced accordingly.  There are a few acres of cropland next to a road where a house could be built without damaging the prairie pasture and creek that comprise most of the property.  As is often the case, certain parts of the pasture are of much better quality than the rest, but the entire pasture has potential to improve a lot when managed well. 

Below is the ad that appeared in the Ames DAILY TRIBUNE on 11/18/05.  Below that are just a few of the flowers I saw during a quick survey about a month ago.  If you know a good potential conservation buyer, please inform that person.  (The Story County Conservation Board knows about but is unable to buy the property.)

Cindy

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NEW TODAY -- Fifty acre prairie building site along West Indian Creek north of Nevada.  $160,000.  785-532-9074 or [log in to unmask]

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Leadplant
Bottle gentian
Culversroot
Wild rose sp.
Pale purple coneflower
Prairie larkspur
Marsh milkweed
Round-headed bushclover

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Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

"Worthy of remark that the Grouse or Prarie hen is Booted, the Toes of their feet So constructed as to walk on the Snow, and the Tail Short with 2 long Stiff feathers in the middle."  (William Clark)    

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