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                                                                                                                                     Oklahoma's Tallgrass Prairie
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Once covering over 400,000 square miles, North America's Tallgrass Prairie stretched in a narrow corridore
from Canada, across Iowa and Illinois, thru Kansas and Oklahoma, into Texas almost to the Gulf of Mexico. 
By the year 1900, almost all of it was gone, converted into croplands and lost to America's westward expansion.


Today, only remnants remain in scattered, non-connected areas across its historical range.  Only the Flint Hills Region
of Kansas and Oklahoma retain the last large scale areas of Tallgrass and where horizon to horizon vistas are still possible.


Oklahoma's 38,000 acre Tallgrass Prairie Preserve near Pawhuska is the largest protected area of Tallgrass in
existance.  This most unique and rare landscape offers the visitor a chance to experience the prairie as it once was.


The "Oklahoma's Tallgrass Prairie  - One Day on the Bluestem Sea" exhibit provides a glimpse
of what remains of this magnificent part of North America's wilderness of grass.





Composed of 20 to 25 matted images in various sizes up to 16 x 20
Available for display to nature organizations, schools, and civic groups for a small fee, this photographic
essay captures more than the wide open vistas, it explores the prairie up close to discover the smaller
details that define it's character.


For information contact Keith Bridgman  at  krbrid@aol.com