Why protect and restore grasslands?
Grasslands provide a variety of benefits for all living beings. They control erosion and supply forage for livestock; trap rain and snow to recharge water tables; prevent excessive agricultural; chemicals from degrading surface and ground water; and provide essential habitat for a variety of wildlife species … habitat is rapidly disappearing. Protecting uplands helps ensure a safe water supply for all forms of life. Tallgrass prairie once covered more than 25 million acres of Minnesota and Iowa. The original Tallgrass prairie is mostly gone now, with only 1/10th of 1 percent remaining. These are places where species of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world hold on to existence, and places where men, women, and families understand hardship, challenges, and triumphs of the native and immigrant people that came before them.
