Nancy Showalter sold her 240-acre Hyde County, SD, property to Ducks Unlimited because she wanted to see her family’s native prairie preserved and the livestock heritage of the area sustained. DU purchased the Showalter property because other potential buyers would have converted the prairie to cropland and nearly eliminated the waterfowl and wildlife value of this area that is particularly attractive to pintails. The property is part of an area that attracts 80-100 ducks pairs per square mile including 13-16 pairs of breeding pintails. The Showalter property is part of “Grasslands for Tomorrow”, DU’s highest priority conservation initiative a landscape scale effort that will protect more than two million acres on the Missouri Coteau of North and South Dakota.