Noted wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg turns his attention to the prairie where he was born and raised. A mile from his grandparent’s farm in southwest Minnesota is a 360-acre parcel of rocky pasture that was once part of the vast tallgrass prairie filled with blazing star and big bluestem, burrowing owls and bison. Brandenburg rallied a group of like-minded folks, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to return the land of his youth to its former glory.

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