MO-Osage+Prairie+Conservation+Area


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=Osage Prairie Conservation Area= Nevada, Missouri 64772 Osage Prairie Conservation Area Website Osage Prairie Conservation Area Map

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Osage Prairie CA
Coordinates: 37.7479889, -94.3251528 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Osage Prairie Conservation Area
(Six miles south of Nevada on US-71) Go 0.5 mile west on Tally Bend Road to 1725 Road. Turn left (south) and go 0.5 mile. Area on the right. This tract, which contains a 615-acre Designated Natural Area, is mostly native prairie along with forest, cropland, and some old fields.

Osage Prairie is a remnant of the prairie ecosystem that once covered more than a quarter of Missouri. It is also home to plants and animals that are specially adapted for life on the open prairie. Less than one-half of one percent of original prairie remains in Missouri making some of these species increasingly rare.

Managers use prescribed burning, grazing, and other tools to simulate historic disturbances that maintain healthy grasslands and limit the negative impacts of invasive plants, including trees, which were historically uncommon here.

Management priorities include providing nesting and brood-rearing habitat for Greater prairie-chickens, bobwhite quail, and grassland birds, such as Henslow's sparrow and upland sandpiper.

Monitoring and management for a number of lesser known species is also important. Some species may include: Mead's milkweed, prairie mole crickets, Regal fritillary butterflies, northern crawfish frog, slender glass lizard, blacknose shiner, grasshopper sparrow, Loggerhead shrike, short-eared owl, and Northern harrier. From Osage Prairie Conservation Area Website

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