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Nature Preserve Area
1
County
Ogle
Location And Access
Two miles south of German Valley. Special Note: This preserve is privately owned and prior permission is required for access.
Description
Heeren Prairie Nature Preserve is a dry dolomite prairie identified on the Illinois Natural Areas Inventory (INAI #0089). While relatively small, the site survives today as an outstanding high-quality natural area representing the original dry prairie vegetation of the Rock River Hill Country Natural Division. The highest quality prairie shows little to no evidence of disturbance and includes a full complement of prairie plants typically found in these rather harsh, dry, conditions, including little bluestem, prairie dropseed, porcupine grass, side oats gramma, big bluestem, Indian grass, prairie brome, prairie smoke, pasque flower, leadplant, butterfly weed, and rough blazing star.
Ownership
Arnold Heeren
Dedicated
Novermber 1995
Size
1.9 acres
Topographic Quad
German Valley
For Further Information
Illinois Nature Preserves Commission
One Natural Resources Way
Springfield, IL 62702
217-785-8686