Fairchild Cemetery Savanna Nature Preserve

County: Vermilion
Ownership: Grand Prairie Friends-Prairie Grove Volunteers
Dedication: June 1986
Size: 1.4 acres

This small cemetery is one of the few remaining savanna remnants left in Illinois. For many years, this site was protected and managed by the Vermilion County Audubon Society. The management program for this preserve includes prescribed burning and brush control. For the last several years prescribed burns have been conducted here with encouraging results.

Some of the predominant plants of this savanna are big bluestem, Indian grass, New Jersey tea, showy goldenrod, drooping coneflower, and prairie rose. Over 35 other herbaceous species of prairie plants are known to occur at this site.

updated: January 10, 2002
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