Description: Large 5,000 to 300,000 acre landscapes (36 in total) that retain
some features of a functioning prairie landscape and include
71% of Minnesota’s remaining native prairie.
Description: Criteria and methodology: To be filled inData Sources: Native prairie data was provided by the Minnesota Biological Survey, February 2015. The land cover analysis is based on the US Fish and Wildlife Service Habitat and Population Evaluation Team's 2014 re-anlaysis of the National Land Cover Database's 2011 data.
Copyright Text: This data was developed by the Minnesota Prairie Plan Working Team for the 2015 revision of the Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan. Technical support was provided by The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota. Contact Steve Chaplin (schaplin@tnc.org) at TNC for additional information.