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I think this surge in prairie garden is a positive change and maybe the first positive change for prairie in quite a while.

Great. And what do you think of the future viability of the prairie ecosystem?

I think it needs continual help, I think it needs people who are aware of what's happening and what's happened and what the prairie really is as opposed to my preconceived notions of like ‘there's prairie everywhere, farm is a prairie, if you have grasses growing, it's a prairie.' So people need to be aware of what a prairie really is and I think it's gone beyond the place of the point where we can just conserve what's left, we need to actively restore areas to prairie if we hope to maintain it, if we hope it be around in another thirty years.

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