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Bleeding Land, Heating Earth for a Fill-Up

"The magnificence of being." In 1877, that's what the early plainsman Richard I. Dodge reported feeling on the open grasslands.

Unfortunately, by the 1990s that ecosystem had become one of the world's most threatened. In Kansas, where I grew up, crops had replaced about 70 percent of the prairie. Some Midwestern states lost nearly 100 percent.