Iowa Prairie Restoration | Iowa Land and Sky

Stretching for miles in Central Iowa, the Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge was once farmland but is now restored prairie. Meticulously restored prairies may contain up to 100 different species of grasses and flora, but that pales in comparison to well-maintained remnant tracts that can contain nearly 400 different species. It’s a biodiversity that can take hundreds or thousands of years to create. This video profiles a restored prairie and compares the biodiversity to Iowa’s largest remaining tract of original prairie, Broken Kettle Grasslands north of Sioux City. http://www.iptv.org/iowalandandsky