"I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea... And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.” –Willa Cather, My Ántonia

Big blue stem is a native grass that sways 5 ft. high in autumn. 🌾🌤️ #TallgrassPrairie #BigBluestem

Join us this Saturday, September 19, at Nachusa Grasslands' Fall Festival! 🦬

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Two Henslow's Sparrows were reported in the tallgrass prairie at Peck Farm Park in Geneva on September 7, part of a handful of early-September checklists from the Geneva Park District's 385-acre park on the western edge of the morain…

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