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The Open Prairie

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A few of the words

MEADOWLARK
The western meadowlark is the state bird of six states, more than any other bird in the US, its whistling call long associated with open grassland skies.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SODHOUSE
Prairie homesteaders cut bricks of dense sod to build their first homes; a single house might take an acre of prairie turf and could stay naturally cool through a scorching summer.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BLUESTEM
Big bluestem grass, once the dominant plant of the tallgrass prairie, can send roots more than ten feet into the soil, anchoring the plains through drought and wind alike.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
WINDMILL
The steel windmill became a lifeline on the treeless plains after the 1870s, pumping groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer for cattle and crops across the dry heartland.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About The Open Prairie

The great interior grasslands of North America once stretched for hundreds of millions of acres, a sea of bluestem and switchgrass rolling from the Missouri River to the Rockies. Homesteaders crossed that open ground by wagon, raised sod houses from the earth itself, and listened at dusk to the meadowlark's bright, flute-like song carry across a silence so deep it felt alive. The buffalo herds that shaped those plains, numbering in the tens of millions before the 1800s, grazed and moved with the seasons, keeping the tallgrass cropped and the prairie in motion.

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