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Spring Creek Prairie
Audubon Center
Nebraska's natural heritage comes alive at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center,
an 808-acre tallgrass prairie nature preserve located 20 minutes southwest of
Lincoln. The tallgrass preserve includes wetlands, ponds, streams, and bur oak
woodlands. Students can stand in ruts cut by 19th-century wagon trains, and get
a sense of the landscape that Native Americans, early explorers and settlers saw
two centuries ago.
The Center is open year-around, and provides on-site programs that
incorporate hands-on, multidisciplinary activities geared for specific
grade-level objectives. Programs include Prairie Explorers, Animals &
Habitats, and Prairie Waterworks, or teachers can work with
the Center's staff to customize your visit.
The Center's education building is insulated by straw and prairie hay
bales and recycled denim, and designed with many environmentally
friendly features. It provides a great learning space should the weather
turn bad.
Spring Creek Prairie is one of the largest and best pieces of protected
tallgrass prairie in Nebraska. Spring Creek Prairie is host to
over 350 plant species, and visitors have spotted more than 200 species
of birds, 52 kinds of butterflies, 30 mammal species, and 35 kinds of
dragonflies and damselflies.
For more information on the Center's education programs, contact Deb
Hauswald, education coordinator, at (402) 797-2301, or visit the
Spring Creek Prairie
web site.
Photos courtesy of Spring Creek Prairie Audubon
Center
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