Reminds me of old Doc. Breckenridge at U of Minn. He filmed prairie chickens dancing where Met. Stadium was built and now it is gone.
But sort of the opposite around here as lights go out on the small farms and the landscape becomes more barren. Their small pastures and hayfields, as well as the rod of native prairie public right-of-way bounding all the sections are gone as well as many of the basin wetlands. The wetlands that remain are mostly beds of cattails and willows surrounded by 'roundup-ready' cropland. These former areas of meadow and shallow marsh once supported the most species of plants and animals in the Prairie Pothole Region.
