PRAIRIE

Types Of Prairies

• Tall Grass Prairies- a prairie with tall grasses.
• Mixed Grass Prairie- a prairie with short and tall grasses mixed.
• Short Grass Prairie- a prairie where the soil isnt as rich so
• the grass stays short.

ANIMALS

MAMMALS

• America Bison
• Red Fox
• Coyote
• Badgers

Reptiles & Amphibians

• Western hog nose snake
• Spade foot toad

BIRDS

• Sharp tailed groose
• Upland sandpaper
• Western meadowlark
• Horned lark
• Red tailed hawk

BIRDS CONTINUED

• Sparrow hawk
• Short-eared-owl
• Pheasant

Values Of The Prairie
Today people are realizing the values of the prairies of North Dakota. So much of North Dakota's prairies are vanished they a very valuable. Countless of mammals,birds,insects depend on the prairie to survival. The prairie is a good place for hunting picnicking and bird watching. Lakes in maintain cleaner water grasses from prairies help prevent soils and nutrients from entering and other wetlands.

Threats To The Prairie
Before Euro Americans began setting in North Dakota In the late 1800s almost the entire region was grasslands. Today almost 80 percent of the north Dakotas native prairie is vanished. In the red river valley 95 percent of it has vanished. Now that the land is plowed up for crop usage habitats have been destroyed. A,lot of grassland species suffered huge population loses when the habitats were destroyed,change or moved to other small patches of land.

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