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Bison Meadow is a 2 acre prairie planted in 1994 on a terminal branch of the historic Natchez Trace that is today Hillsboro Road. This old Indian trail was a route where buffalo, bear, elk, and other large animals once roamed north to the big salt lick on the Cumberland River. Sculpted bison stand in a meadow of prairie grasses, compass plants, coneflowers, and blazing stars. Prairie ecosystems of Indian grass, big bluestem, and little bluestem were once abundant across the Middle Tennessee landscape and persisted because of Indian fires and grazing buffalo. The meadow is similar to a Middle Tennessee barrens or prairie natural area that is now rare.
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Forest Hills, Tennessee · United States
