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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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