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American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America — until 1889, when they were ...
A study of the genetic basis of plague immunity in prairie dogs has broad implications for conservation. From white-nose ...
A field of green grass just off I-30, across from Lone Star Park, is normally an empty hillside down to the service road that ...
A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.
Portage la Prairie has earned a spot among the top eight communities in North America for best-tasting water, following a ...
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered ...
Newcomers to the seemingly endless grasslands that once spanned approximately a quarter of North America often hit a psychic wall, descending into fits of mania. Prairie madness, as the phenomenon ...
The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered comprehension. Newcomers to the seemingly endless grasslands that once spanned approximately a quarter of North America often hit a psychic ...
“Sea of Grass,” written by Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, hit bookstores just before ...
Learn what the best heat- and drought-tolerant perennials are to plant in and July for late season garden color.
The Nachusa Grasslands, a 4,000-acre plot in Franklin Grove, Illinois, is home to a herd of 100 wild American Bison, which ...
American Prairie announced its latest land acquisition on Wednesday, Dec. 4, a parcel at the base of the Little Rocky Mountains in north-central Montana's Phillips County.