Poirot Prairie Peers
Missouri is blessed with many beautiful relic/remnant prairies, each with its own unique "architecture" - some rocky, some sandy, others loamy; some wet, some dry and some a mixture of both. As many prairies as we have, it is important to remember that these represent less than 1% of the original tall grass prairie lands that once covered 30% of Missouri's surface (https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/1996/03/tallgrass) For more info about and directional maps to Missouri's public prairies, check out this handy link: https://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/mnh/prairie_cons_areas.pdf NOTE: only prairies owned by the Mo. State Parks, Mo. Dept of Conservation, the Missouri Prairie Foundation, or Nature Conservancy are listed and mapped. Privately owned prairies such as the Poirot Prairie do not appear in this on-line guide . We (the local Poirot family) expect prairies located in Dade, Barton and Lawrence counties to be most comparable to that of the Poirot Prairie. If y