Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center

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| location = Lancaster County, Nebraska

| nearest_city = Denton

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| area = {{Convert|808|acre}}

| established = 1998

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Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center is an {{Convert|850|acre|adj=on}}{{cite web |url=https://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/mission-and-history-0 |title=Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center: Mission and History |publisher=Audubon.org |date= |accessdate=9 Nov 2012}} tallgrass prairie nature preserve located southwest of Lincoln, Nebraska near Denton. Established in 1998, it is home to 222 bird species,{{Cite web |url=http://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/birds-wildlife |title=Birds & Wildlife | Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center |access-date=2012-11-09 |archive-date=2012-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730172906/http://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/birds-wildlife |url-status=dead }} 30 mammal species, 53 butterfly species, 35, dragonfly/damselfly species,{{Cite web|url=https://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/wildlife-1|title=Wildlife|date=22 December 2015}} and over 370 plants.{{Cite web |url=http://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/sites/default/files/documents/plant_list_2010.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-11-09 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234412/http://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/sites/default/files/documents/plant_list_2010.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/biosciornithology/39/|title=A Guide to the Tallgrass Prairies of Eastern Nebraska and Adjacent States|journal=Papers in Ornithology|date=31 December 2007|last1=Johnsgard|first1=Paul}} Roughly three miles of walking trails run through the prairie. 19th-century wagon ruts from the Nebraska City-Fort Kearny Cutoff to the Oregon Trail can be observed.

An education building opened in 2006,{{Cite web|url=https://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/visitor-center|title = Visitor Center|date = 22 December 2015}} employing many green features.{{Cite web |url=http://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/sites/default/files/documents/green_education_building.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-11-09 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223412/http://springcreekprairie.audubon.org/sites/default/files/documents/green_education_building.pdf |url-status=dead }}