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At one point, this tallgrass prairie covered 170 million acres across North America, from Texas to southern Canada, providing a home for bison, birds, and pollinators, and storing more carbon than some forests.—Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2026 The Last Whisper of an Ocean of Grass The tallgrass prairie once covered 170 million acres of the continent.—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026 And nature lovers will appreciate the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, a 1,160-acre tallgrass prairie boasting wildflowers, exotic birds, spring-fed ponds and authentic 19th-century wagon ruts from a cutoff of the Oregon Trail.—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2026 Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge Prairie City, Iowa Before European immigrants arrived, tallgrass prairie covered 85 percent of modern-day Iowa.—Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Midwest Living, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tallgrass prairie