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Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center

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Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
Phone:
+1 515-994-3400

Address:
9981 Pacific St, Prairie City, IA 50228-7820

The Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge is a federal national wildlife refuge located in Jasper County, Iowa, United States. The refuge, formerly known as Walnut Creek, is named after Congressman Neal Edward Smith, who championed its creation. It seeks to restore the tallgrass prairie and oak savanna ecosystems that once covered most of Iowa. It has a herd of approximately 50 buffalo and 20 elk. The core of the Neal Smith refuge was a 3,600-acre block of land originally acquired by Iowa Power and Light for a nuclear power plant. The Fish and Wildlife Service was able to acquire this land in 1990. Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has acquired about 6,000 acres much more of the allocated 11,865 acres . Although the Neal Smith refuge includes a patchwork of small and seriously degraded native prairies, most of the refuge is the result of prairie restoration or reconstruction efforts. The restoration work has been done with local ecotype seed harvested from nearby native prairie remnants or from other restoration efforts that have used acceptable local ecotype seed.
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