If you want to know what a great expanse of this country looked like before the cacophony of modern life took over, consider a trip to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas.
If you want to know what a great expanse of this country looked like before the cacophony of modern life took over, consider a trip to the
“A lot of the early written accounts talk about this ocean of grass,” says the Nature Conservancy’s Tony Capizzo. “The only metaphor that compared was the ocean and those endless waves.” Today, the Tallgrass prairie is a sliver of what it once was. Before European settlers came to North America, Capizzo says the prairie formed a 170-million-acre belt across the middle of the continent — from modern-day Canada to Mexico.
“It’s an amazing carbon bank,” Capizzo says. “Tallgrass prairie sequesters almost as much carbon as an old-growth forest. The difference is all that carbon is held beneath our feet.”
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