STEELE FAMILY LTD PARTNERSHIP ACQUISITIO

The Nature Conservancy in Iowa (TNC) requests $200,000 to be matched by $600,000 in private funds to acquire the 167-acre Steele Family Limited Partnership in the Little Sioux Watershed of northwest Iowa.

The Little Sioux Watershed is an area with extensive grassland and savanna habitat important for breeding birds and migrating species.

The Steele Family Limited Partnership acquisition will preserve and buffer high quality tallgrass prairie and, upon subsequent transfer, expand the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' 1,834-acre Waterman Prairie Wildlife Management Area.

The project will build upon conservation successes by TNC and partners and enlarge a complex of conserved lands in the Waterman Creek Bird Conservation Area of the Little Sioux Watershed.