a guy's welcome to techno on phil tours joined by kara santa maria maria to davison and so they were going to talk to environmental stories and to start off the greats american prairie to me it's one of those iconic images of how the us used to be unfortunately now it's almost entirely just a part of our history yeah there's been a lot of over development of farming and a suburban explosion that's really taken a toll on a lot of prayer ecosystems illinois has been extremely hard hit it's changing but there's been a big change in the landscape there yet this is happening across the united states but i got to say what i really love about this story is that there's a bit of us west so there is i want to give anything away so let's go about ninety miles outside of chicago where they're bringing back a little piece of history it's kind of a big piece of history ok think piece of history to go on. that. you were looking at a thirty five hundred acre experiment in a growing field in known as restoration ecology. this is the new choose the grasslands preserve in franklin grove illinois ninet