Prairie Sunset Greeting Card | Neal Smith Refuge, Iowa

Send the calm of an Iowa prairie sunset with a fine art photo greeting card from Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Blank inside for your own words, it’s a thoughtful choice for a birthday, a thank-you, or an encouraging note to someone who loves wide-open landscapes and native wildflowers.

Card details

• Size: Portrait folding card, 5” wide × 7” high
• Print: Archival pigment inks on archival glossy cardstock, colorfast and fade-resistant for years to come
• Interior: Blank with matte finish for your own message
• Envelope: Archival white envelope included
• Frame it: The fine art photo fits a standard 5”×7” frame, so the recipient can enjoy it long after the occasion

The story behind the photograph

Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) and wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) rise above a lush green prairie at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Prairie City, Iowa. Rolling restored tallgrass prairie sweeps back to a distant farmland treeline, a vast warm pastel sunset sky filling the upper half of the frame with peach and blue. One of the largest tallgrass prairie restorations in the country, captured in the long light of evening when the landscape shows its full scale and beauty.

A meaningful gift for a tallgrass prairie enthusiast, Iowa nature admirer, habitat restoration advocate, or anyone who has ever stood in a restored prairie at sunset and understood in their bones why these landscapes are worth saving.

Back of card: Blank, with the Midwest Wilderness Connections logo and the following description along the bottom edge: “Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) and wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium). Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Prairie City, Iowa. — Midwest Wilderness Connections www.MidwestWildernessConnections.com”

Love this view? Explore the matching Neal Smith prairie sunset fine art photo print.