Live Stream Wild Bison Roaming Free At The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie In Illinois
Spy on a forest preserve in Illinois that will let you live stream wild bison that roam its lands. You can follow an actual family of bison as they live out their days on the prairie. Scroll on for more details.
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Between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day, you can track a small yet important herd of bison that live at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in northeast Illinois, just outside of Chicago.
The footage is provided by EarthCam in coordination with the U.S. Forest Service. The bison are part of a 20-year experiment that aims to restore a portion of the state to its original environment.
In total, there are 18,500 acres of tallgrass prairie to explore at this restored national area yet still only one percent of the land in Illinois, which is known as the Prairie State, is made up of this sort of environment.
Glimpses of Midewim National Tallgrass Prairie will show you what the land in Illinois looked like when explorers and settlers first made their way to the state.
An Illinois transplant who grew up and went to school in Indiana for 22 years, Elizabeth holds a BFA in creative writing and has enjoyed traveling across the country and parts of Europe. She has visited half of the states, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and regularly travels home to the Hoosier State to see friends and family. With more than five years of writing experience, Elizabeth’s articles have been featured on several websites, and her poetry and short stories have been published in multiple literary journals.
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