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 daylong event rotates between new and old sites in the large expanse of tallgrass prairie.
    — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Another plant native to tallgrass prairies growing at the pond is switch grass.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For more information on the 51 acre tallgrass prairie, click here.
    — Greg May, Houston Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2019
  • 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 tallgrass prairie and central hardwood forest have an amazing array of plants.
    — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The journal is an online database about the ecology, history and culture of the tallgrass prairie.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2025
  • This authentic tallgrass prairie plant is a warm-season grass that is green during the warmth of late spring and turns reddish to yellowish orange in the fall.
    — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • As in, rolling hills, limestone bluffs, and the largest remaining expanse of tallgrass prairie in North America.
    — Erin Gifford, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Henslow’s sparrows often benefit from habitat restoration efforts and the creation of tallgrass prairie.
    — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • Today, less than 15% of tallgrass prairie remains, most of it converted to farmland or lost to development.
    — Mark Tutton, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Walking along the land's two-mile path, miniature ecosystems mimicking the state's tallgrass prairies, wetlands, savannas and more are revealed.
    — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024
  • This area will be dedicated to native Ohio plants, specifically native grasses and tallgrass prairie plantings.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 13 Dec. 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
  • Sandhills, mixed-grass, and tallgrass prairies, plus western coniferous, eastern deciduous, and boreal forests live near each other there and nowhere else in the country.
    — Matt Crossman, Midwest Living, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center is a tallgrass prairie nature preserve, a unique remnant of what once filled much of the Great Plains.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Sarah Smarsh recounts how 96 percent of the tallgrass prairie that once blanketed the US is now gone—destroyed to allow farming and cultivation.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The land here is rare and precious; tallgrass prairie once covered wide swaths of North America, but today less than 4 percent remains intact, mostly in Kansas’s Flint Hills.
    — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Midwest Living, 20 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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