At the tip of the Tall Grass Prairie

    Once every two years members of the prairie community gather to compare notes and celebrate the landscape they love and care for.   This year all roads lead to Manitoba, at the northern tip of the Tall Grass Prairie. The 23^rd North American Prairie Conference will meet Aug. 6 to 10 in Winnipeg.  We preview the conference in our spring issue.  In fact, we’ve put those stories into a special online edition available for download. 

    Here’s the link:  http://www.woodlandsandprairies.com/2012-spring.pdf.

    The conference isn’t just for serious students of prairies.  There will be topics of interest to anyone who wants to know more about prairies. Activities for children are included.  On one of the field trips you’ll see big bluestem and many wildflowers at their peak in a tall grass prairie preserve in the Red River Valley.  You could make the conference part of a fun and fact-filled family vacation.   Even if you can’t go, our preview could add to your appreciation of the incredible biodiversity of this continent shared by Canadians and Americans and our neighbors to the south.