Michael Forsberg

"Two hundred years ago, before the gun, the plow, the pump, and the fence created one of the most altered environments on Earth, the world's greatest natural grasslands teemed with life. But in the blink of an eye, modernization forever altered the American prairie. Scores of species were marginalized or vanished, and in the span of a century small towns bloomed, then withered, as economic and climatic forces shifted. Today, the great expanse of the...

Follow nature photographer Michael Forsberg as he examines the remaining wilderness in the Great Plains of North America. Featuring stunning imagery, the program is based on Forsberg's book of the same name. Less than 200 years ago, the Great Plains was one of the greatest grassland ecosystems on Earth, stretching nearly a million square miles down the heart of the continent. But as America grew, and the land was settled and tamed, the wilderness...