Prairie's Past and Environment's
Future Aug 2003
Great Prairie and George Catlan
May 2002
US Forest Service
National Grasslands http://www.fs.fed.us/grasslands/
These wind-swept seas of grass and wildflowers - four million acres in
all - have witnessed the pageant of the frontier, the Dust Bowl, and the
dramatic recovery into a great national treasure. Come visit the 20
publicly-owned National Grasslands administered by the USDA Forest
Service.
National Grasslands - US Forest Service map
Tallgrass Prairie
National Preserve, KS http://www.nps.gov/tapr/index.htm
On November 12, 1996, legislation was passed creating Tallgrass Prairie
National Preserve in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. A new superintendent
was assigned to the site in February 1997, and planning activities for the
preserve are now underway. The preserve protects a nationally
significant example of the once vast tallgrass ecosystem. Of the 400,000
square miles of tallgrass prairie that once covered the North American
Continent, less than 4 percent remains, primarily in the Flint Hills.
Introducing
Manitoba's Forests http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/forestry/forest-education/general.html
The Province of Manitoba, Canada's central province, consists of 65.0
million hectares of prairie, lake and forest. The southern boundary of
the province borders the United States at 49° latitude and the northern
boundary flanks the new territory of Nunuvat at 60° latitude.
Forests make up about 26.3 million hectares of the province's 54.8
million hectare land base.
