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At one point, this tallgrass prairie covered 170 million acres across North America, from Texas to southern Canada, providing a home for bison, birds, and pollinators, and storing more carbon than some forests.—
Matt Kirouac,
Travel + Leisure,
20 May 2026 The sudden attention arrives at a pivotal time for Neal Smith, the 6,000-acre refuge about 30 minutes from Des Moines, established to restore remnants of Iowa’s once-vast tallgrass prairie ecosystem.—
Nick El Hajj,
Des Moines Register,
8 May 2026 The Last Whisper of an Ocean of Grass The tallgrass prairie once covered 170 million acres of the continent.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
4 May 2026 Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge Prairie City, Iowa Before European immigrants arrived, tallgrass prairie covered 85 percent of modern-day Iowa.—
Erika Ebsworth-Goold,
Midwest Living,
20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tallgrass prairie