North American Prairies/Credit: Linda & Dr. Dick Buscher
Tallgrass prairies once covered over 170 million acres (69 million hectares) of North America. They were a sea of waving grasses that stretched from the western edge of Indiana into eastern Kansas and from Saskatchewan, Canada, into the northern regions of Texas.
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Picture the corn and soybean fields stretching for miles across the horizon. Now replace this scene with a sea of wildflowers and grasses. As the wind blows and you look straight out onto the edge of the horizon , witness an ocean of undulating textures and colors making huge waves blowing across the vast landscape. Goose bumps form on my arms as I am once again with the great spirit that made this land and I am witness to a virtual native landscape vision. Perhaps my Native American blood can sense this feeling as maybe I used to roam these lands hunting buffalo and using many of the plants for food and medicine.
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