A Naturalist's Guide to the Great Plains

This book documents nearly 500 US and Canadian locations where wildlife refuges nature preserves and similar properties protect natural sites that lie within the North American Great Plains from Canada's Prairie Provinces to the Texas-Mexico border. Information on site location size biological diversity and the presence of especially rare or interesting flora and fauna are mentioned as well as driving directions mailing addresses and phone numbers or internet addresses as available. US federal sites include 11 national grasslands 13 national parks 16 national monuments and more than 70 national wildlife refuges. State properties include nearly 100 state parks and wildlife management areas. Also included are about 60 national and provincial parks national wildlife areas and migratory bird sanctuaries in Canada's Prairie Provinces. Many public-access properties owned by counties towns and private organizations are also described.