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Brandenburg Prairie Foundation
Luverne, Minnesota
Cause Description:
Brandenburg Prairie Foundation
National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg
established the Brandenburg Prairie Foundation in 1999
with the help of a few, dedicated southwestern Minnesota
citizens. The Foundation’s goal is to promote, preserve
and expand the native prairie in southwest Minnesota.
The heart of our mission is to educate and heighten
awareness of the prairie’s irreplaceable beauty and
significance. Jim’s spirit resides in the prairie - it is his
childhood home and is where his photographic career
began to bloom. By establishing the Foundation, Jim has
turned his passion for the prairie into a lifetime
commitment.
The prairie was once the continent’s largest ecosystem;
today, less than one percent of the Northern Tallgrass
Prairie, which once blanketed the upper Midwest, still
remains. It is arguably North America’s most endangered
ecosystem and is one of the most fragmented.
Ecosystems that had once relied on its geographical size
for its diversity become disintegrated, causing an
imbalance in the intricacies of the native environment.
Aside from loss of habitat and equilibrium between
predators and preys, fragmentation is responsible for
inbreeding among species. In turn, inbreeding will result
in weakened species that can no longer survive in an
already challenged ecosystem. Although such corruption
of habitat occurs very quickly, it will take generations of
carefully managed restoration to reverse the damage.
Most recently, the Brandenburg Prairie Foundation and
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service purchased over 800 acres
of untilled prairie land in Rock County, Minnesota
creating the “Touch the Sky Northern Tallgrass Prairie
National Wildlife Refuge.” Together, we have developed
a 15-year management plan for its restoration. With time
and continued effort, hundreds of native species will
return – the tall grasses, the songbirds, flora and native
wildlife. Our dream is to see the bison roaming “Touch the
Sky Prairie” again.
To view Jim Brandenburg's award-winning images,
please visit www.jimbrandenburg.com
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