But the very things that have made grasslands so critical to humanity are now causing them to rapidly disappear. This map from the US ... through the Great Plains and prairies of the US.
The Great Plains are the grasslands of the North American continent ... and the area was marked on early maps as the 'great American desert'. One American explorer, Major Stephen Long, declared ...
The full interplay between human cultures and natural communities on the last large remnants of native prairie on the northern Great Plains is the subject of Grasslands: A Hidden Wilderness ...