OUR PRAIRIE HERITAGE
CELEBRATING A LASTING LEGACY
(a talk by Dr. Larry Yoder, the founder of the Prairie)
In 1977, Larry Yoder, Associate Professor of Botany at Ohio State-Marion, with the assistance of students and community members, established a reconstructed tallgrass prairie on the campus. In October 2025, Dr. Yoder presented the following talk to Dr. Margaret Sumner’s history class and invited guests, that describes the founding of the Prairie.