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America’s grasslands vanishing amid agricultural boom

March 28, 2008/

To the west of this small town, which helped inspire Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic book series that included Little House on the Prairie, the view opens to a vast, unbroken landscape that seems to roll on forever.

But this untamed vista is shrinking.

By Sue Kirchhoff and Jeff Martin, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/environment/2008-03-27-farming-plowing-grasslands_N.htm

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The American Prairie Foundation: http://www.americanprairie.org/

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