Burning grassland (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Burning grassland

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Before railroads and farms segmented the prairie, fires sometimes consumed thousands of square miles of territory, observers reported.

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Photo by Greg Spyreas

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