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Prairie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Prairies are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather ...
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Prairie Animal Printouts. A prairie is a temperate grassland, plains of grass that get hot in the summer and cold in the winter. ... What is a Prairie? A prairie is a temperate grassland, plains of grass that get hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Most of the interior of North America was a prairie before...
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Learn about Wisconsin's prairies. ... Wet Prairie: Lots of water, deep clay silt loam or peat soil, poor drainage. Marsh milkweed and prairie cordgrass are two species of plants common to the wet prairie.
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Trees are absent or scarce on the prairie. When they do occur, they are limited to areas of broken topography (hillsides and bluffs) and the margins of streams and rivers that traverse them. Timber also occurs in groves;
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www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/midewin/whprairie.html
www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/midewin/whprairie.html
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Before Europeans settled in Illinois, animals such as bison and elk roamed the prairie, but shortly after A.D. 1800 disappeared from the state because they were over-hunted and their habitat was turned into farmland.
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www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/prairie/htmls/eco_mammal...
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Weastern hognose snake ... Short eared owl ... Sand hill crane...
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Illinois may be called the Prairie State, but very little of the state's original prairie remains. This loss of habitat has caused the disappearance of many native prairie species from Illinois, including the bison, black bear, and whooping crane.
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www.chias.org/www/edu/mitc/teeepra1.html
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