Environmental News: OnEarth Magazine
OnEarth: Fall 2001: Feature Story
SPECIAL SECTION
PRAIRIE REVIVAL
Prairie Revival
It once blanketed millions of acres, but now the tallgrass prairie is North America's most endangered ecosystem.
RESOURCES
Websites
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
www.npwrc.usgs.gov
- Konza Prairie Long-term Research Project
climate.konza.ksu.edu
- Ken Robertson's tallgrass prairie site
www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/prairiewhatis.html
- Iowa Prairie Network
www.iowaprairienetwork.org
- Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
www.fs.fed.us/mntp
- University of Minnesota prairie site
www1.umn.edu/bellmuse/mnideals/prairie
- Prairies Forever
www.prairies.org
- Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge
www.tallgrass.org
Books
- Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie,
by Aimee Larrabee and John Altman
- Grasslands: The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie,
by Richard Manning
Prairie Revival: Grasslander | A Prairie Primer | A Farewell to Arms | Resources
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