history

Six Good Clues that a Southeastern Grassland was Here

Six Good Clues that a Southeastern Grassland was Here

It was on the northeastern edge of the Southeast that Euro-American settlers first began the slow process of obliterating the ancient grasslands, and the loss of these ecosystems spread from here to the south and west. Many of these grasslands were gone before they could be described, studied by naturalists, painted, or photographed.