Beauty Comes with Fire in the Prairie
The head fire blazed across the prairie like a flash fire [contained] and spread amazing heat for half a minute or so. As the ...
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A Sweeping New Report Shows U.S. Birds Declining Sharply Across a Range of Habitats
Scientists checked in on species all over the country for the latest State of the Birds report. Nearly everywhere they looked, birds were struggling—including some that have been resilient in ...
The Billings Gazette6d
American Prairie community outreach director to speak at Audubon meeting
American Prairie is working to connect, conserve and share more than 3 million acres of prairie grasslands in Montana's Northern Great Plains.
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Greens Urge Federal Protection For Prairie Dogs
Even though prairie dogs are a keystone species across the West with shrinking population numbers, they are as-yet not federally protected.
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Local prairies are threatened by encroaching trees
The Kansas Great Plains Grasslands Initiative is working to preserve grasslands and prairies in Kansas. You can learn more about this USDA project here.
The Leader Union4d
NASA invests in U of I doctoral student’s grassland research
By HANNAH SPANGLER FarmWeek       A University of Illinois doctoral candidate received a $150,000 investment from NASA to create a detailed grassland map using remote sensing. Wendy Dorman, the ...