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Photo Diary: Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Iowa [1]

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Date: 2022-09-03

A portion of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, where President Hoover was born and grew up, has been maintained as a tallgrass prairie preserve, duplicating the landscape within which the tiny town of West Branch was founded.

Some photos from a walk through the preserve.

For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit. I am currently in Iowa.

A walking path through the prairie

A wide variety of plants

I’m plant-illiterate, so I don’t know what this is

Thistle

Sunflower

Pollinators at work.

Milkweed Bug

Monarch Butterfly

Goldfinch

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