The Nachusa Grasslands, a 4,000-acre plot in Franklin Grove, Illinois, is home to a herd of 100 wild American Bison, which ...

A botanist, dubbed the Prairie Preacher, fights to save America's endangered grasslands. "The Prairie Preacher" follows Dr. Dwayne Estes, a botanist who earned his nickname for his passionate ...

The Prairie Preacher,” a PBS Appalachia Virginia documentary produced in partnership with the Southeastern Grasslands ...

Grassland Bird Species to Know. W hen 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 ...

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...

A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.

At the Nachusa Grasslands, there are more than 4,000 acres of restored tallgrass prairie — and one herd of bison. "Grazing is something, especially from bison, that's been absent from this state ...

Imagine a landscape, where grasses sway in the wind, where wildflowers bloom from the first days of spring until the falling leaves of autumn. During the day butterflies paint the skies, and bird ...

Tall grasses can progress from lush green to brown as summer turns to fall, and eventually serve as fuel for wildfires.

Those predators will also snack on grassland nesting birds like the long-billed curlew. To protect themselves, the curlews eavesdrop on the alarms coming from prairie dog colonies ... a surge of new ...

Denver saw more than 4 inches of rain, doubling the city's historic average and outpacing famously rainy places like Seattle.