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2. John Madson - Wikipedia

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   John Madson (1923 in Ames, Iowa – April 19, 1995 in Alton, Illinois) was a naturalist, conservationist, journalist, and freelancer who worked in the field of outdoor writing. Over time his work concentrated on the celebration of the vanished tallgrass prairie ecosystems of the U.S. Midwest, and he won acclaim from his publisher as "the father ...

3. List of U.S. state grasses - Wikipedia

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   State grass Scientific name Image Year adopted California: Purple needlegrass: Nassella pulchra: 2004 [1] Colorado: Blue grama: Bouteloua gracilis: 1987 [2] Illinois: Big bluestem (state prairie grass) Andropogon gerardii: 1989 [3] Kansas: Little bluestem: Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) 2010 [4] Minnesota: Wild rice (state grain ...

4. Cemetery prairie - Wikipedia

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   Only about 2,300 acres (930 ha; 3.6 sq mi; 9.3 km 2) [7] of original prairie are left in Illinois, the Prairie State. [8] Fifty of those Illinois acres are found within 29 historic cemeteries. [ 7 ] In addition to cemetery prairies, other remnants of original prairie persisted on sand ridges and rocky hillsides unsuitable for agriculture, and ...

5. Prairie restoration - Wikipedia

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   By 1849 most species of prairie grass had disappeared to make room for crops (i.e.: soybeans, corn, etc.). [3] [4] Restored prairies and the grasses that survived the 1800 plowing represent only a fragment of the abundant verdure that once covered the midsection of North America from western Ohio to the Rockies and from southern Canada to Texas ...

6. List of protected grasslands of North America - Wikipedia

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   The tallgrass prairie ecosystem covered some 170 million acres (690,000 km 2) of North America. Besides agriculture, much of the shortgrass prairie became grazing land for domestic livestock . Short grasslands occur in semi-arid climates while tall grasslands are in areas of higher rainfall.

7. Bouteloua dactyloides - Wikipedia

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   Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly known as buffalograss or buffalo grass, is a North American prairie grass native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is a short grass found mainly on the High Plains and is co-dominant with blue grama (B. gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie. Buffalo grass in North America is not the same ...

8. List of newspapers in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   The Daily Eastern News – Eastern Illinois University The Daily Egyptian – Southern Illinois University Carbondale The Daily Illini – University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

9. Tallgrass prairie - Wikipedia

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   Flowering big bluestem, a characteristic tallgrass prairie plant. The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.Historically, natural and anthropogenic fire, as well as grazing by large mammals (primarily bison) provided periodic disturbances to these ecosystems, limiting the encroachment of trees, recycling soil nutrients, and facilitating seed dispersal and germination.