Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
One of the last great swaths of tallgrass prairie, in the Flint Hills of Kansas.
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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills of Kansas protects one of the last and largest intact remnants of the tallgrass prairie that once covered 170 million acres of North America — an ecosystem of which less than 4% survives, making it one of the most endangered on the continent. Here, big bluestem and Indian grass can grow taller than a person, rippling in the wind across rolling hills under enormous skies.
The preserve, a partnership of the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy, is home to a reintroduced herd of bison, the keystone grazers that once shaped the prairie, alongside a wealth of wildflowers, grassland birds, and a historic 19th-century ranch. Walking its trails through the seas of grass offers a rare glimpse of the vast, vanished prairie wilderness that defined the American heartland.
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