
Prairie History
Clip: Season 5 Episode 7 | 5mVideo has Closed Captions
Jim Theler and Suzanne Harris are using fire and sweat to restore a hillside prairie.
There is a lot of buried history on a hillside prairie in Vernon County. Jim Theler and Suzanne Harris are using fire and sweat to restore the mound to its pre-European condition as an oak savanna full of native plants and animals. Add in a rock shelter used by Native Americans for thousands of years and you can see why Jim and Suzanna want to stay here forever.
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Prairie History
Clip: Season 5 Episode 7 | 5mVideo has Closed Captions
There is a lot of buried history on a hillside prairie in Vernon County. Jim Theler and Suzanne Harris are using fire and sweat to restore the mound to its pre-European condition as an oak savanna full of native plants and animals. Add in a rock shelter used by Native Americans for thousands of years and you can see why Jim and Suzanna want to stay here forever.
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