Native grasslands were once plentiful across what is now the United States, including tens of millions of acres across eastern U.S. landscapes. The plow, exclusion of fire leading to forest succession, and year-round, unmanaged grazing led to their gradual disappearance over the past two centuries. Today, less than two percent of our once vast native grasslands – also known as prairies, glades and savannahs – remain. Within the eastern U.S., there are even fewer remnants of these productive and ...