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In Iowa, Restitching the Torn Fabric of the Prairie

September 21, 1999
Linda Kahlbaugh for The New York Times


By SAM HOOPER SAMUELS

Ecologists call them "prairie remnants." 

They are forgotten snippets of land along roadsides. Corners of farm fields 
steep enough or wet enough to have escaped the plow. The rough of an 
occasional midwestern golf course. These are the few remaining pockets of the 
American prairie, once a vast sea of grasses, sedges, and flowering plants 
that spanned three time zones. 

See:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/092199sci-environ-prairie.html