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  2. 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 ...

  3. Nachusa Grasslands - Wikipedia

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    Most of northern Illinois was tallgrass prairie at the time of statehood in 1818. In the ensuing century, the vast majority of this prairie was plowed up for arable farmland. [ 3 ] A Nature Conservancy planning process, aimed at building a restored tallgrass prairie ecosystem in Illinois, commenced in 1985; the first major land acquisition of ...

  4. Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Land Conservation Act (Public Law 104-106) created the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, designated the transfer of 19,165 acres (7,756 ha) of land in Illinois from the U.S. Army to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The Illinois Land Conservation Act mandates that Midewin be managed to meet four primary objectives:

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  6. Kankakee Sands - Wikipedia

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    Kankakee Sands is a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) complex of tallgrass prairie and oak savanna restorations and remnants in Kankakee County, Illinois and Newton County, Indiana. [1] [2] It is managed by The Nature Conservancy staff and volunteers.

  7. Prairie restoration - Wikipedia

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    As an example, the U.S. state of Illinois alone once held over 35,000 square miles (91,000 km 2) of prairie land and now just 3 square miles (7.8 km 2) of that original prairie land is left. The over farming of this land as well as periods of drought and its exposure to the elements (no longer bound together by the tall grasses) was responsible ...

  8. Sorghastrum nutans - Wikipedia

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    Sorghastrum nutans, known as Indiangrass, [2] [3] is a North American prairie grass found in the United States and Canada, especially in the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies. It is sometimes called Indian grass [ 4 ] , yellow Indian-grass , [ 2 ] or wood grass .

  9. 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 .

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