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Caption: Marker detail: Prairie in the 1600s versus today
Additional Description: All three kinds of the mid-continental grasslands, (tallgrass prairie, mixed-grass prairie, and shortgrass prairie), have shrunk drastically. In South Dakota 70 percent of the historic mixed-grass prairie has vanished.
Submitted: October 19, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p755508
File Size: 0.709 Megabytes

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