page_title: Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve
section_title: Manitoba tallgrass prairie
hierarchical_section_title: Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve / Manitoba tallgrass prairie
caption_attribution_description: English: Cypripedium candidum. Moist rivets in a limestone barren in Lewis County, Kentucky.
context_page_description: The Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve is located in southeastern Manitoba near Gardenton and Vita, this is about 50 kilometres south of Steinbach, Manitoba. It is one of the last remaining stands of tallgrass prairie in Manitoba and is part of the Tallgrass Aspen Parkland conservation area in Manitoba and Minnesota. Several groups and organizations help in land preservation in the Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie such as the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Nature Manitoba, Environment Canada, Manitoba Conservation and the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation.
context_section_description: Only about 0.5% of the original 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) tallgrass prairie in Manitoba remains. The area is characterized by a mosaic of habitat types, including tallgrass prairie, aspen woodland, sedge meadow wetlands, riparian woodland, and oak savannah. Over 1,000 species depend on this diverse habitat and 16 species that are on provincial or national endangered species list reside within the area.
  The ecological significance of the area that is now the preserve was only discovered in the late 1980s by botanists of the Manitoba Naturalist Society who were cataloging native plant species in the area. They discovered that a significant portion of the tallgrass prairie remained despite the belief it had been wiped out. There are just over 5,000 acres (20 km²) that are protected in the preserve.
  The 13-part television series Canada: A People's History was filmed on location in the preserve for the realistic settings of First Nations encampments and Metis ox carts.
caption: A small white-lady's slipper. These endangered orchids are found in the preserve.
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