The Conservation Garden of the Great Plains | Lauritzen Gardens

Image of Lauritzen Gardens Visitor and Education Center and the Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory

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Adopting a Cinderella Ecosystem: A Tale from the Great Plains

Screenshot from Adopting a Cinderella Ecosystem: A Tale from the Great Plains video

While our plant conservation work is primarily focused on individual at-risk species, Lauritzen Gardens has taken on an unanticipated role as authority and advocate for one of our region’s most biodiverse but underappreciated ecological systems. Sandsage prairie is a shrub-steppe community dominated by sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia). Sandsage prairie occupies an estimated 5 million hectares […]

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