“Fifteen minutes later the plane landed and taxied across a weedy field to a lonely road that wound across the prairie.”

“During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri.”

“This unique region also hosts an impressive array of other wildlife, including blacktail prairie dogs, gray foxes, and piglike javelinas.”

“This acreage includes mountains, deserts, prairies, lakes, oceans, forests, rangelands, national parks, and wildlife refuges.”

“Pine warblers, prairies, and Louisiana waterthrushes are fairly easy to find in their respective habitats.”

“In the prairies where they live, they can be seen for a kilometer and a half.”