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I received a free electronic copy of this informative book from Netgalley, Cindy Crosby, and Northwest University Press in exchange for an honest review. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me.

This is an excellent guide to understanding the intricate balance of the tallgrass prairie, which covers the midwestern plains from Canada to Mexico, though the native and restored prairie are a mere patchwork of preserved islands in a grand sea of people and their immediate needs. Though only very small sections of New Mexico and West Texas are of the tallgrass designation, we do have and visit it often, and try to preserve what we can in the Leopold fashion.

If you have a love of the wild and visit it often, please read this book. The etiquette involved in both preserving and visiting this precious threatened land is explained very well, as is restoring the natural balance on land that has been utilized for human needs, and then restored.

Book received from NetGalley.

This book is part botany, part conservation cry and part history of the prairie. I thought it was a great introduction to a subject many people didn't know about. The prairies of Illinois have a place in my heart I spent as much time on them while growing up as I did in my home state. After reading this book I have realized that I know very little about them and basically took them for granted. The Tallgrass prairies are an endangered ecology due to the fact that we have changed them considerably to grow quite a bit of our foodstuffs on them. It is a good thing that places such as where the author of the book works does their best to reseed areas of it to try to keep the ecology going. I learned quite a bit from this short book and will be looking into some of the suggested reading that they have in the back of it.