How to Use tallgrass prairie in a Sentence

tallgrass prairie

noun

• One-third of Missouri used to be covered in tallgrass prairie.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
• The park is named for the tallgrass prairie which used to cover a third of the state and now makes up less than one percent, but don’t worry.
  — Suzy Evans, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2021
• The daylong event rotates between new and old sites in the large expanse of tallgrass prairie.
  — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity, 1 Mar. 2018
• For more information on the 51 acre tallgrass prairie, click here.
  — Greg May, Houston Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2019
• In the field's center, there are even hints of the kind of tallgrass prairie that once covered 170 million acres of North America like a thick carpet.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 21 May 2018
• The tallgrass prairie and central hardwood forest have an amazing array of plants.
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• Measuring in at well over 6,000 acres, this pristine preserve is home to vast swathes of tallgrass prairie, a type of biome that was once widespread across Iowa before the days of large-scale corn farming.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• Today, more than 95 percent of tallgrass prairie land has been destroyed, and fires are often suppressed in what prairie remnants remain.
  — Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2020
• Less than 4 percent of the tallgrass prairie remains, according to the National Park Service, with most of it in Kansas, a state with very little public land.
  — Sarah Spicer, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• Bald eagles, egrets, great blue herons and pelicans use the riverfront as a migration corridor and in the western portion of the park, 150 acres have been restored to tallgrass prairie.
  — Alex Schechter, New York Times, 14 May 2021
• The Prairie Pothole Region, in the northern stretches of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, is dotted with depressions that were formed by receding glaciers.
  — Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• Today, less than 15% of tallgrass prairie remains, most of it converted to farmland or lost to development.
  — Mark Tutton, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
• Henslow’s sparrows often benefit from habitat restoration efforts and the creation of tallgrass prairie.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
• An example in the central U.S. is the existence of vast areas of tallgrass prairie that existed for millennia before the arrival of European settlers.
  — Marc D. Abrams, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2020
• This area will be dedicated to native Ohio plants, specifically native grasses and tallgrass prairie plantings.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2019
• Homestead National Historical Park rangers and volunteers have helped harvest seeds in the region’s tallgrass prairie to be used to restore disturbed areas of the prairie and increase species diversity.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
• Interestingly, the area contains all four of Minnesota’s biomes within its boundaries, from tallgrass prairie to deciduous forest, said program director Susan Haugh.
  — Bob Timmons Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• Almost half of all temperate grasslands and 16 percent of tropical grasslands have been converted to agricultural or industrial uses and only one percent of the original tallgrass prairie exists today.
  — Claire Wolters, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024