America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
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America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history. Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900 - in the space of a single lifetime - the tallgrass prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape also brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans; in an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps. America's Lost Landscape examines the record of human struggle, triumph, and defeat that prairie history exemplifies, including the history and culture of America's aboriginal inhabitants. The story of how and why the prairie was changed by Euro-American settlement is thoughtfully nuanced.
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Edited by Clayton ConditShot by William F CarlsonScored by Brian KeaneDesigned by Brian P Olson
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2005 · Box office
Produced on a $735K budget
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17 unique people credited
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Nina Leopold Bradley
as Self - Conservationist
Pauline Drobney
as Self - Biologist
Dayton Duncan
as Self - Writer
Lance Foster
as Self - Landscape Historian
Annabeth Gish
as Narrator
Murphy Guyer
as Aldo Leopold
Laura Jackson
as Self - Conservation Biologist
Wes Jackson
as Self - Director, The Land Institute
Carl Leopold
as Self - Botanist
Richard Manning
as Self - Writer
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