THIS PRAIRIE IS HERE FOR ALL OF US.
Let’s make sure it always will be.
Tallgrass prairie once stretched from Texas to Canada. Today, less than 4% remains intact, much of it in Kansas’s Flint Hills. And just beyond Manhattan, Prairiewood encompasses more than 500 acres of this increasingly rare landscape.
It offers different ways into this landscape — and different reasons to return. People come to gather, learn, celebrate and explore. Whatever brings them to Prairiewood, they encounter the prairie along the way. What was once unfamiliar becomes something personal: a place remembered, revisited and shared with others.
Something this rare deserves more than a future left to chance. For more than two decades, Prairiewood has been shaped and cared for through extraordinary private commitment. The next step is to create an enduring future through permanent nonprofit stewardship. Now, we have the opportunity to secure it — protecting important land, managing it for the long term, and ensuring that the prairie remains a place people can experience and connect with for generations to come.
SECURE THE FUTURE
A $3 MILLION CAMPAIGN FOR PRAIRIEWOOD
The Prairiewood Connect Foundation is undertaking a $3 million campaign to begin the transition of Prairiewood to permanent nonprofit stewardship.
PROTECT
the Land
Willis Prairie
Acquire Willis Prairie, permanently protecting approximately 190 acres of native tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills.
Allen Prairie
Retire the remaining debt on nearly 80 acres of prairie already owned by the Foundation.
Ad Astra Campus
Establish a permanent home and operational base for the Foundation at the heart of Prairiewood.
PROVIDE
for the Future
Leadership
Fund a full-time Executive Director to lead the Foundation into its next chapter.
Stewardship
Manage the prairie through prescribed fire, invasive-species control, habitat restoration, ecological monitoring and other essential conservation practices.
Connection
Expand opportunities for education, recreation, research, partnerships and volunteerism that bring more people into the prairie.
Allen Prairie
Willis Prairie
Ad Astra Campus
WHY NOW?
The opportunity to secure these properties exists now. This is also the moment to transition Prairiewood from private ownership to a durable nonprofit future — and to help shape what this extraordinary place can mean to future generations.
What You Can Do
Experience It
Discover the prairie for yourself.
Share It
Tell others why this place matters.
Support It
Your gift can help secure its future.
Our goal is to secure $3 million in commitments by December 31, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Additional Resources
Secure the Future Campaign Flyer
Prairewood Tallgrass Preserve Booklet
The Prairiewood Preserve Aerial Map
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