page_title: Prairie restoration
hierarchical_section_title: Prairie restoration
caption_attribution_description: English: Prairie planting on former agricultural field in DuPage County, Illinois, US. Depicts Parthenium integrifolium, Monarda fistulosa, Andropogon gerardii, Ratibida pinnata.
context_page_description: Prairie restoration is a conservation effort to restore prairie lands that were destroyed due to industrial, agricultural, commercial, or residential development. For example, the U.S. state of Illinois alone once held over 35,000 square miles of prairie land and now just 3 square miles of that original prairie land is left.
context_section_description: Prairie restoration is a conservation effort to restore prairie lands that were destroyed due to industrial, agricultural, commercial, or residential development. For example, the U.S. state of Illinois alone once held over 35,000 square miles (91,000 km²) of prairie land and now just 3 square miles (7.8 km²) of that original prairie land is left.
caption: A tallgrass prairie planting in Illinois.
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