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shortgrass prairie
7 Porch Notes tagged “shortgrass prairie,” from counties across Colorado.
Outdoors and wildfire - Lincoln County
Karval hosts a spring festival built around the mountain plover
The tiny community of Karval holds an annual springtime Mountain Plover Festival that draws birders to one of the bird's important prairie nesting areas.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Weld County
Pawnee National Grassland gives Weld County its big shortgrass horizon
Northeast of Greeley, Pawnee National Grassland gives Weld County a vast federally managed shortgrass prairie horizon.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Arapahoe County
Kiowa Creek Open Space is a future creek-corridor park
Kiowa Creek Open Space is not open yet: cattle still graze a prairie-to-creek landscape being shaped for future low-impact recreation.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Arapahoe County
The Plains Conservation Center protects real shortgrass prairie in east Aurora
On Aurora's eastern edge, the Plains Conservation Center preserves shortgrass prairie where you can see pronghorn, prairie dogs, and raptors, and it is tied to the West Bijou geology site to the east.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Arapahoe County
Bijou Basin Open Space protects rolling prairie before it opens
Bijou Basin Open Space holds 2,800-plus acres of shortgrass prairie and 3.5 miles of West Bijou Creek, closed to the public for now.
Read note ->History and culture - Larimer County
Cathy Fromme Prairie protects a rare shortgrass view of Fort Collins
Cathy Fromme Prairie holds a rare pre-settlement shortgrass landscape on south Fort Collins, with wetlands, wildlife, and a raptor overlook.
Read note ->Water and land - Cheyenne County
Blue grama and buffalo grass are the backbone of Cheyenne County's prairie
Cheyenne County sits in Colorado's shortgrass prairie, where low, drought-hardy native grasses like blue grama and buffalo grass dominate the land.
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