num_pages: 320
description: Over 2 million square miles of North America is covered in prairie comprising the largest ecosystem on the continent. The prairies are the heartland of the continent a vast windswept plain that flows from Alberta south to Texas and from the Rockies east to the Mississippi River. This is big sky country and until recently one of the richest and most magnificent natural grasslands in the world. Today however the North American prairies are among the most altered environments on Earth. Thorough detailed and scientifically up-to-date Prairie: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of this fabled environment offering a view of the past a vision for the future and a clear focus on the present. Sidebars throughout highlight various grasslands species tell fascinating natural history and conservation stories and present the traditional Native American view of the prairie and its inhabitants.
language: English
title: Prairie: A Natural History
publisher: Greystone Books