GRAFTON, N.D. — In early September, high schoolers from North Valley Career and Technology Center waded through hip-high prairie with plastic containers and bags, collecting seed heads, grasses and ...

Matt Dehaemers, owner of Compass Prairie Art Farm, stands in his remnant 10-acre prairie on Monday, September 23, 2024. Crickets and grasshoppers sing among the native grasses and flowers on a 10-acre ...

Illinois, nicknamed the Prairie State by early settlers, was once dominated by a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Prairies are characterized by deep, fertile soils that are the result of thousands of ...

The new book, "Sea of Grass," traces the history and future of the American prairie, laying out the stunning loss of grassland in North America and meeting the people fighting to bring it back.

HOLMEN, Wis. (WKBT) -- A recent Holmen High School graduate has transformed what was once a utilitarian drainage basin into a flourishing prairie ecosystem that now serves as both wildlife habitat and ...

The grassland-dependent lesser prairie-chicken was recently listed under the Endangered Species Act. Why? Because the purpose of the Act is to conserve the ecosystems upon which we and all other ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Racing ahead of his fellow students, Jeremyah Kindness began running around the prairie dog ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it is revoking grazing permits in Phillips County that American Prairie had been using to sustain its herd of bison. The decision comes ...