Prairies are threatened by a mix of invasive and native plant species. As these species expand their territory, they prevent ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Today, however, the wild prairie is a shadow of its former self. And temperate grasslands, as a whole, are now considered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to be the most ...

More than 70% of Canada’s prairie grassland has been converted for farming ... and their habit of rolling in the dirt creates microhabitats for plants. Birds build nests with their hair, and ...

Different parts of the world refer to their grasslands by different names – for instance ‘savannah’ in Africa, ‘cerrado’ in South America, ‘prairie’ in North America, ‘steppe’ in central Asia, ‘meadow ...

Researchers have been monitoring the impact of bison on plant and animal communities at The Nature Conservancy’s Nachusa ...