Consistent with the Goals of Green Omaha , [hotlink to Green Omaha background] the preserve will provide watershed management for the Big Papillion Creek, and a connection to Papio-Missouri River Natural Resource District Trails.

The project aims to include educational opportunities in an environmental study center with demonstration plots and an historic barn conference center and natural history exhibit area.

The Glacier Creek Coalition was formed in 1999 under the leadership of the University of Nebraska at Omaha in association with Omaha area leaders in natural resources, education, and private enterprise to establish the 500 acre preserve. The proposed area will include UNO’s 160 acre Alwine Prairie and an additional 340 acres that encompass the Glacier Creek Watershed situated north of
144 ^th and State Street.

When Lewis and Clark visited this area, more than 95% of the landscape was tallgrass prairie.   Today our native habitat is only seen in small isolated pockets that cannot replicate the true nature of the expansive dynamic prairie that is our natural heritage.

The Glacier Creek project will be a way to experience the prairie as it was for centuries and to insure an understanding of our plains heritage for generations to come.

Glacier Creek Coalition

University of Nebraska at Omaha

City of Omaha (Parks Department)

Douglas County

Creighton University

Volunteer Conservation Corps

Nebraska Wildlife Federation

Inner-city Coalition on the Environment

Nebraska Groundwater Foundation

With support of the concept from

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

The Nature Conservancy

Metropolitan Omaha Education Consortium

Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District