Tall Grass

Preservation of the Tallgrass Prairie Brief Review The tallgrass prairie ecosystem once covered over 400,000 square miles in North America. This area extended from Canada southward to Texas and from the Rocky Mountains east to present-day Ohio. Today, just one percent of this terrain remains in existence in its natural state, much of which is located in the untamed Flint Hills of eastern Kansas. There had been a movement for nearly 50 years in favor of some …

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