June 18, 1999
2 Carleton College Academics Work to Bring Back a Tallgrass Prairie
On a brilliant spring afternoon, a gentle breeze tickles the young grasses of a once and future prairie. To a visitor, the vegetation doesn't look like the dense prairie of the history books -- more like the plant kingdom's version of peach fuzz. But Carleton College's Mark McKone and Myles G. Bakke see the tract as it was -- and will be again.
"We are very sure that this was prairie," says Mr. McKone, an associate professor of biology
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