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This is a complete list of ZIP codes for Wisconsin. 530 Sheboygan. 53001 – Adell; ... 53158 – Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha; 53159 – Powers Lake (P.O. Box)
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.
Tucker Prairie is a 146-acre (590,000 m 2) tallgrass prairie in the U.S. state of Missouri. Never plowed by farmers, [ 2 ] the prairie patch is operated as a National Natural Landmark by the Division of Biological sciences of the University of Missouri , which is headquartered relatively close to the prairie.
The high rainfall and long summer allows a rich plant cover and this area was once the largest area of tallgrass prairie in the world, with grasses reaching up to 7 feet (2 m) high and interspersed with many wildflowers.
Curtis Prairie (60 acres (24 ha)) – described as the world's oldest restored prairie; a tallgrass prairie with big bluestem grass and Indian grass. Greene Prairie (50 acres (20 ha)) – planted by prairie expert Henry Greene during the 1940s and 1950s. Marion Dunn Prairie (4 acres (1.6 ha)) – restoration of a settling pond.
The Northern Tallgrass Prairie has a humid continental climate with moderate precipitation, usually between 450-700mm. Winters here are very cold, with a mean winter temperature of −12.5 °C (9.5 °F), and summers are warm, with a mean temperature of 16 °C (61 °F). The ecoregion's mean annual temperature is 2.5 °C (36 °F). [2]
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.
ZIP code(s) 60089. Area code(s) 847 and 224 ... which ceded all their lands in Illinois and Wisconsin and opened the ... the area featured a tallgrass prairie dotted ...