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Cedar Rapids Museum of Art www.crma.org

Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, IA) www.desmoinesartcenter.org

Grinnell Community Links:
Grinnell Area Arts Council www.grinnellarts.org
Grinnell Community Calendar http://www.grinnellchamber.org/index.cfm?page=10
Grinnell, town of www.grinnelliowa.gov
Stewart Library www.grinnell.lib.ia.us

Iowa Living Roadway Trust Fund (website): This annual, competitive grant program provides funding for integrated roadside vegetation management (IRVM) activities, including the preservation, establishment, and maintenance of native vegetation along Iowa's roadsides www.iowalivingroadway.com

Iowa Prairie Network : The Iowa Prairie Network is a grass-roots, volunteer, non-profit, organization that is dedicated to the preservation of Iowa's prairie heritage. www.iowaprairienetwork.org

Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development (Amana, IA): Our mission is to conserve and develop our natural resources in the Iowa and Cedar Valley areas through education demonstration and partnerships. www.ivrcd.org

The Land Institute (Salina, KS): Our purpose is to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops www.landinstitute.org

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Ames, IA): The Leopold Center is a research and education center with statewide programs to develop sustainable agricultural practices that are both profitable and conserve natural resources. www.leopold.iastate.edu/

Living History Farms (Des Moines, IA): Depicts 250 years of Iowa agricultural history through a recreated Ioway Indian farm, an 1850 pioneer farmstead, an 1875 Iowa town, and a 1900 farm. Exhibits describe the tremendous changes in farming in the 20th century. Visitors have opportunities for hands-on learning. www.lhf.org

Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (Prairie City, IA): The Refuge was created by an act of Congress in 1990 to re-create 8000 acres of tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, the native plant and animal communities existing in central Iowa prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1840's. www.tallgrass.org

State Historical Society of Iowa (Des Moines, IA) www.iowahistory.org/

University of Iowa Museum of Art (Iowa City, IA) www.uiowa.edu/uima

University of Iowa Museum of Natural History (Iowa City, IA) http://www.uiowa.edu/~nathist/

Women on the Prairie (website) http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/his/s02/his354-01/


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