Tune in and learn what you can do to help in the fight to protect this irreplaceable habitat. Bell Bowl Prairie is slated to be bulldozed for the expansion of an airport at the end of this month but people like Jennifer Kuroda are doing everything they can to make sure that doesn't happen. In this episode, we discuss the impending destruction of one of Illinois last great remnant prairies. The remnant prairies (fragments of the original, pre-colonial prairie landscape) that remain represent vestiges of this once great ecosystem and harbor many threatened and endangered species. Today, humans have reduced this to only 0.01%. Upwards of 170 million acres of prairie once covered North America.
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