[PCA] NEWS: Prairie Science Thrives at the Chicago Botanic Garden

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=36980

Prairie Science Thrives at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Produced by Lea Coon on Thursday, September 24, 2009

For thousands of years, the area we now call Illinois was home to some 20 
million acres of prairie. Native grasses and wildflowers thrived until the 
railroads were built and a man named John Deere developed a new kind of 
plow. Now, just a small fraction of prairie is left in the Prairie State. 
But the science of conserving the plants native to Illinois and the 
Midwest got a boost this week: a new research center north of Chicago is 
using science to save the prairie.

See the link above for the audio of the interview and the transcript.