On this western rim of the great dish that holds grassland to the heart of the continent, the mix of altitude, climate and soil is just right to bring prairie flowers to a last hurrah before the ...

Several students from Austin College started a fire that was no accident. Thursday, the Prairie Restoration class performed a ...

Colorado contains some of the most diverse landscapes in the country. With ecosystems that range from the prairie grassland ...

Grasslands that have been tilled-up to plant crops, even decades ago, are likely to be both less productive and less resilient than lands without that use legacy. While contemporary stocking rates ...

"The Prairie Preacher" follows Dr. Dwayne Estes, a botanist who earned his nickname for his passionate advocacy of grassland conservation. Once a child who found solace in nature, Estes now ...

Gary Groff fondly remembers hunting all day on his grandfather’s land as a boy. “For all my dad’s life, he could not believe that I could go out there before daylight and come back after dark,” he ...

Before European colonization, it was estimated that Wisconsin was home to more than 2 million acres of grasslands, namely prairie and oak savanna found largely in the southern part of the state.

It aims to keep the grassland free of trees and shrubs, maintaining the coastal prairie, one of California’s most overlooked ecosystems. Rolling hills of grass and wildflowers once blanketed ...

If you ever manage to tick the Route 66 road trip off your bucket list you’ll almost definitely find yourself driving through thousands of miles of temperate grasslands, or ‘prairies’ as ...