Prairie Lake NEON - United States of America

Prairie Lake at Dakota Coteau Field School  is relocatable aquatic site and is part of NEON's Northern Plains Domain 9. Prairie Lake is also co located in The Dakota Coteau Field School (DCFS) terrestrial field. Also located in Stuntsman County, North Dakota, approximately 100 miles northeast of Bismarck, in an area known as the "Prairie Pothole Region." It is encompassed in the Northern Plains Domain, which includes a patchwork of grasslands, agricultural, and wetland/aquatic communities embedded in a matrix of small agrarian communities. This site is managed by the State of North Dakota Land Trust and is moderately grazed throughout the year. NEON sampling at DCFS occurs across nonadjacent land parcels interspersed by ...