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The Agassiz Beach Ridges landscape is located in the Red River watershed of northwestern Minnesota and falls and is within the larger Prairie Pothole Region (PPR). The PPR has been identified as being responsible for producing 50–80 percent of the continent’s waterfowl while accounting for only 10% of the available breeding habitat. It is estimated that less than 1% of Minnesota’s historic native prairie remains intact, with much of the remnant prairie scattered about in small clusters. Restoration of key sites within this landscape has been identified as the most important strategy to create a contiguous expanse of prairie/wetland mosaic and improve the ecological functioning of these systems. In the fall of...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Birds,
Cropland conversion,
Federally threatened or endangered species,
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Grasses, All tags...
Habitat-based,
Herbaceous (grass, sedge, forb),
Mammals,
Minnesota,
Natural Resource Conservation Service,
Natural Resource Conservation Service,
Natural processes and hazards,
Prairie restoration,
Private land,
Species protection,
State threatened or endangered species,
The Nature Conservancy,
The Nature Conservancy,
U.S. Department of the Interior land,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Wetland,
Wetland Restoration,
Wetland creation, Fewer tags
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