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Cultivating Place: North America's Largest Ecosystem - The Prairies and Plains With Brad Guhr

Cultivating Place: North America's Largest Ecosystem - The Prairies and Plains With Brad Guhr

FromCultivating Place


Cultivating Place: North America's Largest Ecosystem - The Prairies and Plains With Brad Guhr

FromCultivating Place

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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jan 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Last week we talked "Little House on the Prairie" and this week we visit the grassland prairies and plains of Kansas. According to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas and the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower center in Texas, Tallgrass prairie once covered between 170 to 250 million acres of North America – making it the largest ecosystem in the country. By 1860, the vast majority was developed and plowed under. Today less than 4% remains, mostly in the Kansas Flint Hills.

We’re joined in conversation by Brad Guhr, education coordinator and prairie restoration ecologist for the Dyck Arboretum of the Plains in Hesston, Kansas. To learn more about this inspiring ecosystem based landscape. Join us.
Released:
Jan 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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