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Prairie Grass


“You can walk all over them because out of the whole plant the amount you see overground is about 10%, and 90% is underground. The roots can be up to 14 feet. That’s why our ancestors, the Lakota, would set fire to the grassland because it would burn all the top dead grass, but the roots are so far underground that they don’t even feel the heat. About two inches is all the roots need to survive that fire. And the fire clears it out, so there’s all this space for new plants to grow. And that’s good for the animals too.”


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