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The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands

Resource Type

Book - Child

Description

Product Description "Barely a century ago a vast tallgrass prairie covered America's heartland. Bison, elk, coyotes, and bear roamed this wilderness. Hundreds of species of prairie plants supported an explosion of birds and insects, including hundreds of kinds of butterflies. By the early part of the twentieth century, however, the tallgrass prairie was gone, its rich soils converted to farms to feed a growing world population..."

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)

Languages

English

ISBN

061839687X

Author

Sneed Collard

Publication

2005 Houghton Mifflin

Availability

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