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Description
Tallgrass prairie once blanketed approximately 170 million acres of North America, from Texas up into Canada and from Kentucky west into Kansas. Only about 4 percent of this once vast sea of grass remains, making tallgrass prairie the most altered ecosystem on the continent in terms of acres lost.
Recommended Citation
Obermeyer, Brian (2014). "Sustainable Prairie," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2014/flinthills/3
Sustainable Prairie
Tallgrass prairie once blanketed approximately 170 million acres of North America, from Texas up into Canada and from Kentucky west into Kansas. Only about 4 percent of this once vast sea of grass remains, making tallgrass prairie the most altered ecosystem on the continent in terms of acres lost.
