GIBE Article - Animals large and small once covered North America's prairies

Environment + Energy

❐ Animals large and small once covered North America's prairies – and in some places, they could again

2020 Feb 19

Bighorn sheep on grassland in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Joel Berger, CC BY-ND

North America's prairies once were home to millions of wild animals. Today, most of that land is farmed or developed, but some grasslands have never been plowed and could be rewilded.