Buffalo Commons
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The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the Ame
American bison
High Plains grazing land in Morgan County, Colorado
Great American Desert
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The term Great American Desert was used in the 19th century to describe the part of North America east of the Rocky Mountains to approximately the 100th meridian. It can be traced to Stephen H. Long's
Buffalo Commons
…Depopulation of the Great Plains Great American Desert Popper, Deborah E.; Popper, Frank J., The Buffalo Commons as Regional Metaphor and Geographic Method, Great Plains Restoration Council, archived from…
"Great American Desert," mapped by Stephen H. Long in 1820
Historic photo of the High Plains in Haskell County, Kansas, showing a treeless semi-arid grassland and a buffalo wallow or circular depression in the level surface. (Photo by W.D. Johnson, 1897)