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America's Lost Landscape

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Producer(s)	David O'Shields
Director(s)	Daryl Smith
Release Date	2005
Runtime	60 min
Format(s)	video, DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no
Educational Materials	Yes

Film Description

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie is a sixty minute documentary film designed for national broadcast on public television. the film tells the story of one of the world's great ecosystems and its transformation from natural landscape to farmland. The tallgrass prairie was once a prominent featrue of the North American continent that was reduced, in less than a hundred years, to the vanishing point. The goal of this film is to inform and enlighten the general public abou the historical, cultural and enviconmental aspects of the tallgrass prairie landscape, and to address questions about the future of agriculture in the former tallgrass prairie states of America.