“It took the retreat of glaciers thousands of years ago to form the grasslands of America, and give it the highest recorded depth of organic matter anywhere in the world, and less than a century for it to have its completely severed by the plow of monoculture”
“fourteen states boasted thousands of acres of these rolling grasslands and now less than 4% of this habitat is intact. It is listed as one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, and it’s quietly taking its last breaths in our backyard”