prairie grasses adapted to survive the grazing animals that have populated the region for centuries. Most plants have nodes where new growth sprouts; in most grasses that node lies close to the ...

A new book traces how the American prairie was nearly destroyed and why its return is so necessary for our future.

(SOUNDBITE OF COW BRAYING) LLOPIS-JEPSEN: The cattle will hear a warning noise from the collars if they get too close to ... across the prairie where the grass can really build up.

Authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty met up with Here & Now’s Chris Bentley in Illinois’ Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie to talk about ... where new growth sprouts; in most grasses that node ...