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Prairie history

I've been lurking all this time, and enjoying the interchange and
information.

Now I have a request.

Can anyone point me in a direction which will give me information about when
the first legislation was enacted to protect a prairie landscape?

I'm curious, because settlers' initial reactions to the prairie were fear
and disorientation -- the prairie seemed so vast, and to have few landmarks.
What I'm after is how long it took for the institutional realization [ie,
legislation of some kind] that these were valuable places -- historically,
ecologically, and in terms of crop productivity.

This came up in the process of a research paper on social constructions of
vacancy in relation to land, and in the part which deals with  history of
perceptions of vacancy. The prairies certainly was regarded as an empty
place when first encountered by European settlers.

Thanks.


-- 
Carla Corbin
Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Illinois
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611 East Taft Drive
Champaign IL 61820

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