Zambezi, a pack of painted dogs is setting a trap. The alpha male and alpha female lead the hunt, heads down and ears ...

Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air.

Several ambitious conservation initiatives are reintroducing bison across the Great Plains, each contributing to the ecological revival of this endangered ecosystem. The American Prairie Reserve in ...

Grey elephant. Image by Openverse. Rewilding the Great Plains with elephants wouldn’t just benefit American ecosystems – it could provide significant conservation value for the elephants themselves.

Other states across the Midwest and Great Plains have seen the same boom in enrolled acres: South Dakota went from fewer than 250,000 enrolled acres in 2020 to more than 2.6 million in 2024. Iowa’s ...

How much do you know about the animal we call buffalo (but is actually the American bison)? While Ralphie is the only bison on a football field, there are now over 20,000 bison in conservation herds ...

The Lesser Prairie-Chicken is in serious trouble throughout its range in the southern Great Plains. Over the past six decades the species has experienced one of the most precipitous declines of any ...

Severe storms will likely bring damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes to parts of the Northern Plains this weekend. Yellowstone to Yosemite: Kevin Costner speculates the reason behind Teddy ...

Millions of Americans are bracing for snow storms as the upper Midwest and northern Great Plains continue to face severe winter weather. The National Weather Service has nearly seven million ...

The report also found in the Northern Great Plains, which represents one of the world's last remaining intact temperate grasslands, 70% of the grass in this region remains intact. Yet still, 480,000 ...

The remaining grassland portion of the Great Plains is generally characterized by rural communities with low population densities and today, the largest extent of the grasslands across the Great ...