Grassland Biome Network: Results of First Year

Tawny grass floating in an indigo sky bowl . . . pungent sage . . . prickly wind rushing the nostrils . . . deserted homestead, covered wagon tracks . . . tepee circles, dinosaur bones.... These are remnants of America gone by. They are also what remain of the American prairies. These, the Pawnee National Grasslands between Nunn, Colo., and Cheyenne, Wyo., serve as headquarters for one of the more ambitious ecological undertakings in the United States today-the grassland biome studies of the International Biological Program