What Are Tallgrass Prairies?

Tallgrass prairies are landscape dominant by grasses. Some of the different types of grasses found are big bluestem, Indian grass, switch grass that are over 6ft on productive soils. Little bluestem, side-oats grama, Junegrasses are prominent in thinner drier soils. They are the home of many different animal species like insects and grassland birds. And endangered or threated species can be found here. It supported a great number of plants and animals. They have become non-existence for over 150 years. The tallgrass prairies covered about 170 million acres of the United States, now is gone due to agriculture. Their climates range from really hot in the summer and really cold in the winter. Tallgrass prairies in an intrinsic value it has the