Come join us April 13, 14 and 15, 2012 for three days and evenings of immersion in the Prairie Chicken Festival events and Grasslands Lore. Get close to nature and observe wildlife, observe the wide variety of birds that make the grasslands their home. Particularly the Greater Prairie Chicken. Observe it's unique courtship dance and resonant boom.

Feel the joys of the grasslands becoming alive at dawn. Enjoy breakfast in the great outdoors. Refresh your spirits and be renewed by Mother Nature. Learn about research techniques being used in the grasslands and what is being done, and should be done, to protect them. Learn their history. Listen to the people who spent their life in the grasslands and know them intimately. Tour the areas and experience them intimately and first hand.

There are six locations in four different Wisconsin counties featured during the festival. However, travel distance between them is relatively short. A wide variety of daytime and evening events for all ages will be taking place at the sites. There are so many opportunities during the festival that it might actually become a bit daunting knowing where you want to be and when you want to be there.

We prepared a web site that we hope will help you sort it all out and help you plan and enjoy the time you spend at the festival. It covers such things as descriptions of the six festival sites, the events that will be taking place at each site and the time and day of the event. We also prepared an "Orientation Map and Event Planner" that you may find helpful in making your plans.