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Article: Prairie chickens depend on grasslands.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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Whether the unusual booming sound of prairie chickens continues to echo across Minnesota grasslands each spring for generations to come depends on whether enough grassland can be preserved.
And there is little left in a state once covered with flowing expanses of tall grasses and prairie flowers as far as the eye could see. Now, only about one-third of 1 percent of the natural vegetation that was here when the pioneers arrived is still remaining, said Brian Winter of The Nature Conservancy.
His organization has restored more than 100 acres of prairie in the Bluestem Prairie Preserve. In fact, the 10-acre booming ground we visited last week was a gravel ...