It's called Rue des Prairies Prairie Street.

Laura Ingalls grew up on the prairie.

That's cellulosic, second generation biofuels from prairie grass.

We partnered with the Nature Conservancy for inmates at Stafford Creek Correctional Center to grow endangered prairie plants for restoration of relic prairie areas in Washington state.

You can engineer a prairie vole to become monogamous when it's naturally polygamous.

The Eggmobile is a very rickety contraption it looks like a prairie schooner made out of boards but it houses 350 chickens.

So in habitats that have already been damaged, like the tall grass prairie here in the USA, or in mined land in various countries, restoration is already happening because of these species and because of this collection.

Although we can't bring trees and prairie plants and frogs into these environments, we are bringing images of nature into these exercise yards, putting them on the walls, so at least they get contact with visual images of nature.

So, farming based on how a prairie builds soil, ranching based on how a native ungulate herd actually increases the health of the range, even wastewater treatment based on how a marsh not only cleans the water, but creates incredibly sparkling productivity.

Others are more mundane, involving long term experiments and observation of smaller ecosystems, such as plots of prairie grass or swamplands. Finally, of course, we have the spectacular advances in our knowledge of genomics, the science that lets us understand the basic mechanisms that operate inside all living systems, including humans.