People call the Texas plains ???flyover country.??? Jarid Manos calls this land a coral reef in a sea of grass. In a region that has been ground under America???s boot heel, Manos and his Great Plains Restoration Council have found a rich ecosystem, dangerously close to collapse. Through aggressive conservation, ecosystem rebuilding, and nature education for the youth of inner-cities and Indian reservations, respect is returning to plains. Even the buffalo have returned. ::TreeHugger Radio L....

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