Book excerpt: 'Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie' • Minnesota Reformer

Book excerpt: 'Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie' • Minnesota Reformer

(Photo by Dave Hage)Editor’s note: A new book, “Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie,” was recently published by Penguin Random House. Written by Minnesota journalists Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty, it tells the story how the tallgrass prairie was transformed into an agricultural landscape, the environmental consequences, and the choices we face for a better future in farming, and for protecting wh…