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What is the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve?
“Tallgrass prairie once covered 140 million acres of North America. Within a generation the vast majority was developed and plowed under. Today less than 4% remains, mostly here in the Kansas Flint Hills. The preserve protects a nationally significant remnant of the once vast tallgrass prairie and its cultural resources. Here the tallgrass prairie takes its last stand…..”
This land was left as is because it was too rocky to farm. With permission, ranchers can bring their cattle to graze on the grass. Scheduled burnings help preserve the natural tallgrass. Buffalo from South Dakota have been re-introduced.
Tallgrass Prairie official site:
http://www.nps.gov/tapr/index.htm
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