Restoring the Tall-Grass Prairie

Beginning about 150 years ago, most of the prairies and grasslands that once covered the American heartland became fields of wheat, corn, and soybeans. More recently, suburban neighborhoods and office parks began replacing farms in ever-widening circles around the cities and towns. Conventional practice is to landscape the open spaces around such development with broad expanses of green lawn interspersed with shrubs and trees, a model imported from Europe.

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