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The Prairie Marsh trail is a 0.25 miles (0.40 km) loop trail that passes through two habitats, a tallgrass prairie and a marsh. [4] This area is considered a virgin prairie as it has never been tilled or grazed. Both the prairie and the marsh are dependent upon fire to maintain their openness and diversity of plant life.
Indiana is within the Eastern Temperate Forest environment, Level I region. Level IV ecoregions (denoted by numbers and letters) are a further subdivision of Level III ecoregions (denoted by numbers alone). [1] [2] [3] 54 Central Corn Belt Plains. 54a - Illinois/Indiana Prairie; 54b - Chicago Lake Plain; 54c - Kankakee Marsh; 54d - Sand Area
In the dunes, there are several different prairie types. Each is dependent on moisture levels and soil types. They ranger from wet, Hoosier Prairie to dry, Mnoke Prairie. [1] Soils varies from sand to silt loams. Some key identifiers of a prairie community include the eastern bluebird, blazing starr, and lead plant.
The Konza Tallgrass Prairie in Kansas hosts 250 species of native plants and provides habitat for 208 birds, 27 mammals, 25 reptiles, and over 3,000 insects. [17] Some of the dominant grasses of prairies are Indian grass, big bluestem, side-oats grama, Canada wildrye, and switchgrass. [18] Prairies are considered to be fire-dependent ecosystems.
Kankakee Sands is a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) complex of tallgrass prairie and oak savanna restorations and remnants in Kankakee County, Illinois and Newton County, Indiana. [1] [2] It is managed by The Nature Conservancy staff and volunteers.
Prairie is an unincorporated community in Black Township, Posey County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1] As of 2020, it had a population of 5,999 people with a median age of 46.1. [ 2 ]
The Prairie Peninsula is an eastward projection of vegetation typically found in the American prairies into Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. [1] It is so named because it is an extension of grassland into the forests of the eastern United States. [2] Anthropogenic fire regimes are considered to have helped maintain the eastern prairies. [2]
The Prairie Creek Site is an archaeological site in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. Located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Washington in Daviess County , it lies along the southern bank of the westward-flowing Prairie Creek, a White River tributary.