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

Here are six volunteers who make a difference at National Parks and other federal lands, from an 8-year-old who does the ...

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 ...

Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between ...

American Prairie Reserve senior foreman Damien Austin talks about an ancient buffalo jump where American Indians once hunted the animals, on a site that now overlooks central Montana’s C.M ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) partnered with Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever (PF/QF), The Nature Conservancy, and local landowners to dedicate two new conservation areas on Wednesday, ...

Native prairies and grasslands boast a remarkable biodiversity of plants, insects, birds and mammals. But grassland habitats have dwindled since the 19th century, so prairie bird species dependent ...

New research suggests long-billed curlews keep an ear out for warnings from prairie dogs in order to hide from predators and protect their nests ...

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

When prairie dogs hear each other’s barks, they either stand alert or hide underground. A wild black-tailed prairie dog, which uses alarm calls to warn others about predators.