Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve
Marshall County, Iowa
Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve Plants and Wildlife
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About Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve
Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve is located in Marshall County, just north and west of Marshalltown, Iowa. The preserve consists of 219 acres of sand prairie and fens managed by the Marshall County Conservation Board. Seventeen acres in the southwest corner of this preserve are in remnant condition. The more recent 202 acre addition to the preserve was previously cropped and is currently undergoing restoration.
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Interesting literature
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Iowa County Conservation System Guide to Outdoor Recreation
Grinnell College Center for Prairie Studies. 2004. Guide to Prairie Sites Near Grinnell, Iowa, Third edition. 40 pages.
Lee, Jeffrey A. and Zobeck, Ted M., 2002. Origin of Iowa's Sand Prairies in the Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference, International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2 p. 373.
Marshall County Conservation Marietta Sand Prairie Preserve brochure
Mohlenbrock, R. 2002. Sands of time: a small prairie that formed at the end of the Ice Age is an Iowa gem. Natural History.
My County Parks Marietta Sand Prairie Preserve web page
Wilsey, B. J., L. M. Martin and H. W. Polley. 2005. Predicting Plant Extinction Based on Specie-Area Curves in Prairie Fragments with High Beta Richness. Conservation Biology 19(6):1835-1841.