Grassland Heritage Foundation preserves prairies in eastern Kansas through education, stewardship, and land protection.
Tallgrass Prairie Facts
Prairie arose in the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains, and once covered 400 million acres over the center of the U.S. from Saskatchewan to Texas. Prairies are diverse communities dominated by grasses and wildflowers.
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Tallgrass prairie, with three-fourths of its biomass
underground, created some of the most productive
soils in the world. Prairie thrives amid drought, fire,
and grazing due to root systems up to 15 feet deep.
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Only 1% of the native tallgrass prairie remains today due to fire suppression and intensive crop production, making it a globally endangered ecosystem. Remaining prairies now include the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma and small remnant prairies, such as The Prairie Center in Olathe, Kansas and GHF's Snyder Prairie, Leadplant Prairie, and Roulund-Wagner Prairie.
Only 1% of the native tallgrass prairie remains today. . .
News
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Read about our Spring Native Plant Sales, meet our new Board Members, and learn about the great work being done by recipients of our Sustaining Prairies Award in our Spring Newsletter!
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We are accepting applications for the 2024 season of our Sustaining Prairies Fund until June 01!
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Join a community of prairie protectors
You can directly support prairie land management, land protection, and education in northeast Kansas as a GHF member and donor.
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GHF provides hands-on prairie restoration opportunities, academic scholarships, and workshops on prairie management, native plant gardening, and prairie ecology.
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Members receive the GHF newsletter, discounts on fee workshops, discounts at GHF's annual native plant sale, and workshop & event notifications.
What you can do to protect prairie
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Visit and enjoy prairies with friends.
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Add native plants to your garden. They are needed by native pollinating insects, they reduce erosion, and they use less water.​
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Apply for a scholarship to advance our understanding of prairie ecology and restoration.
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Encourage your city, county, and state to include prairie remnants and native plants in park and landscaping plans.​
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Keep exotic invasive plants out of your yard, parks and plant nurseries.
Events
Snyder Prairie Winter Burns
Interested in helping out with our prescribed burns this winter? Email Nicole at grasslandheritage@gmail.com for more information.
Snyder Prairie, Mayetta, KS
Saturday/Sunday
December - February
TBD
Seed Cleaning Event to Benefit the Prairie Park Restoration Project
Join GHF, Native Lands Restoration Collaborative and the Kansas Native Seed Team in cleaning native prairie seeds to use for our restoration site at Prairie Park!
East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 E 15th St, Lawrence, KS 66044
Sunday
January 07, 2023
1 pm to 4 pm
GHF Annual Meeting
Join GHF board members and staff as we hold our annual meeting and elections. If you think you might be interested in being involved on the administrative side of things, this is an excellent opportunity to see how we work as an organization.
Neosho County Community College, 900 E Logan St, Ottawa, Kansas 66067
Saturday
January 20, 2024
9 am to 12 pm
Seed Spreading at Prairie Park
Join us for a fun afternoon spreading seed to increase the biodiversity of our grant-funded prairie restoration project at Prairie Park! All ages and levels of experience are welcome. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Prairie Park- 2811 Kensington Road, Lawrence, KS, 66046
Saturday
January 27, 2024
2 pm to 4 pm
Groundhogs at Snyder Prairie
Join Groundhogs volunteers as we complete various stewardship activities at GHF's Snyder Prairie. Email Nicole at grasslandheritage@gmail.com for further information.
Snyder Prairie, Mayetta, KS
Saturday
March 09, 2024
TBD
Groundhogs at Snyder Prairie
Join Groundhogs volunteers as we complete various stewardship activities at GHF's Snyder Prairie. Email Nicole at grasslandheritage@gmail.com for further information.
Snyder Prairie, Mayetta, KS
Saturday
April 13, 2024
TBD
Prairie Education and Restoration Workday
Join us for a volunteer workday supporting our grant-funded prairie restoration project at Prairie Park! All ages and levels of experience are welcome. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Prairie Park- 2811 Kensington Road, Lawrence, KS, 66046
Tuesday
April 30, 2024
5 pm to 7 pm
Prairie Education and Restoration Workday
Join us for a volunteer workday supporting our grant-funded prairie restoration project at Prairie Park! All ages and levels of experience are welcome. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Prairie Park- 2811 Kensington Road, Lawrence, KS, 66046
Saturday
May 11, 2024
9 am to 12 pm
Native Plant Sale in Emporia, KS
Join us at the PAROC as we host a Native Plant Sale with educational opportunities as part of PAROC's Science Saturday on May 11th. GHF will give a "Basics of Native Plant Gardening" talk at 3pm and 4pm. Our friends at Native Lands Restoration Collaborative will give an educational talk on native plants at 2 pm, followed by an opportunity for the community to learn about the riparian restoration work underway north of the PAROC.
Prophet Aquatic Research & Outreach Center at Emporia State University, 601 East 18th Ave, Emporia, KS 66801
Saturday
May 11, 2024
2 pm to 5 pm
GHF's 12th Annual Spring Native Plant Sale
Join us on the courtyard of Trinity Episcopal Church in Downtown Lawrence, KS for our 12th Annual Spring Native Plant Sale! We will have around 60 different species of native Kansas wildflowers and grasses available for sale. We will once again offer pre-orders exclusively for GHF members. Visit our Native Plant Sale webpage for additional details.
Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St, Lawrence, KS 66044
Saturday
May 18, 2024
10 am to 1 pm
Prairie Education and Restoration Workday
Join us on National Prairie Day to celebrate prairie and the completion of our grant-funded prairie restoration work at Prairie Park! We will have educational opportunities for all ages as well as hands-on volunteer opportunities to support the restoration project at Prairie Park! All ages and levels of experience are welcome. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Prairie Park- 2811 Kensington Road, Lawrence, KS, 66046
Saturday
June 01, 2024
9 am to 12 pm
Groundhogs at Snyder Prairie
Join Groundhogs volunteers as we complete various stewardship activities at GHF's Snyder Prairie. Email Nicole at grasslandheritage@gmail.com for further information.
Snyder Prairie, Mayetta, KS
Saturday
June 15, 2024
TBD
Contact Grassland Heritage Foundation
PO Box 394
Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66201
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