Prairie
About 4.4% of the area of the dunes is Prairie. Three-fourths of that is dry prairie, the remainder is wet prairie.
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Famous quotes containing the word prairie:
“To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
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In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
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