Moonbeam Children\'s Book Award Towering oak and hickory woodlands once fringed the tallgrass prairie of the Midwest.
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Now only small portions of this special habitat remain, and many of its animals and plants are endangered or extinct.
But as more people arrived, the woodlands, like the tallgrass prairie, were cleared with amazing speed.
In a wondrous mixture of plant and animal life, big mammals like black bears and cougars thrived alongside gray foxes and ovenbirds.
Moonbeam Children\'s Book Award Towering oak and hickory woodlands once fringed the tallgrass prairie of the Midwest