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Welcome to the Ames High Priaire Website!

The Ames High Prairie is located in Ames, IA to the west of Ames High School (you can see two clearings in the map below, between the high school and the University Villiage complex, that are the prairie portions of the preserve). It has been designated State Preserve status because it is a prairie remnant (here is more background information about the preserve from The Nature Conservancy). The Ames Community School District owns the land and signed a 49-year lease agreement with The Nature Conservancy in 1970 (here is a copy of the lease).

This space is intended to serve the following purposes:
 * Serve as a record of how people have been involved in the monitoring and management of the preserve.
 * Contain a record of what species exist in the Ames High Prairie. Species Pages are grouped on the left-side of this page; If you find errors in any of the pages, please contact me.

These pages will change as people make more observations of the prairie - feel free to stop by and check out our progress.

Please feel free to contact Mike Todd (Biology, Environmental Science, and Physics Teacher at Ames High School) if you have any comments, questions, or concerns. mike.todd@ames.k12.ia.us

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