WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the U.S. Forest Service has signed a new 10-year agreement for the Dakota Prairie Grasslands Demonstration Project. Hoeven’s office has been ...

Bison once numbered in the tens of millions in the United States. Now, a nonprofit is working to restore the shortgrass prairie, where the American icons and their ecosystem can thrive again. Scott ...

When you think of the historic Great Plains, you probably imagine vast herds of bison grazing across the prairie. While this image is certainly accurate, those bison weren’t alone. Living alongside ...

NEAR PRESHO, S.D. -- In the nearly half-century he's lived in South Dakota, John Cooper has seen countless beautiful prairie sunsets. But none perhaps prettier than one on a recent late afternoon that ...

Tom Banes photographed flowers found in prairie grasslands, clockwise from upper left, prairie gentian, a hybrid prairie lady's slipper-yellow lady's slipper, narrow-leaved coneflower, prairie ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - The Konza Prairie has unlocked some of the hidden secrets of grassland plants thanks to the help of bison, some cattle and K-State researchers. Kansas State University says ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

A “green glacier” of trees is steadily taking over native grasslands. Landowners are banding together to treat the problem ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. “Prairie ...