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Iowa is the only state that lies entirely within the natural region of the tallgrass prairie. Early documents indicate that 95 percent of the state-close to 30 million acres-was covered by prairie vegetation at the time of Euro-American settlement. By 1930 the prairie sod had been almost totally converted to cropland; only about 30,000 acres of the original "great green sea" remained. Now, in this gracefully illustrated manual, Shirley Shirley has created a step-by-step guide to reconstructing the natural landscape of Iowa and the Upper Midwest.Chapters on planning, obtainin

Prairie restoration --- Prairie plants --- Prairie reconstruction --- Prairie renovation --- Prairies --- Reconstruction of prairies --- Renovation of prairies --- Restoration of prairies --- Grassland restoration --- Prairie flora --- Grassland plants --- Restoration --- Management