The prairie boasts a wide variety of flowers such as blazing star, cup plant, and big blue stem that attract songbirds to nest and eat. Importantly, they also provide the nature center with a valuable resource for educational programs.
These new acres of prairie joined with the single acre of prairie established in 2007 provide over five acres of habitat for birds, reptiles and insects. These, along with volunteers from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, allowed us to prepare and seed about four acres of the open field. With a tractor was supplied by the Kenosha County Parks Division and a drill seeder graciously rented to the center at no cost by Schmidt Implement in Salem. of seed comprised of various native prairie grasses and forbs. These funds were used to purchase approximately 40 lbs. In October of 2011, funds donated to the Pringle Nature Center by the Kloss Foundation enabled a four-acre expansion of the prairie. Prior to that the Pringle family used the field to grow feed for their cattle. When the park first opened it was a mowed field of grass. Nonetheless the Pringle Nature Center, which is located within Bristol Woods County Park, has embarked on a multi-year journey to establish a tallgrass prairie in the large open field to the north of the nature center parking lot. As the name suggests, most of the park is made up of dense forest communities, dominated by oaks, maples and hickories. When you think of Bristol Woods County Park, a prairie is probably not the first thing that comes to mind.
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