You don't have to leave North Dakota to visit badlands. We have nearly 3 million acres of them right here in our state, and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture invites ag producers and private landowners to enroll in the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program. The sign-up is open to Aug. 8. Grassland CRP, offered by USDA’s ...

Richardson’s ground squirrels are native to North Dakota’s prairie lands, but they’ve thrived in the urban environment where fewer predators can check their growing numbers. MINOT, N.D. — The ...

New research says long-billed curlews listen to alarm barks from prairie dog colonies to protect themselves from predators.

Ground squirrels have proliferated in Minot, North Dakota's fourth-largest city, where they're burrowing everywhere from vacant lots to the middle of town, and growing more plentiful over the past two ...

Discover why Kansas prairie grasslands are vital, endangered, and how you can help protect this hidden natural treasure.

Glacial Ridge would become another example of the human capacity to transform landscapes, only this time it would be from ...

One cubic yard of tallgrass prairie sod — with its grasses, sedges, flowers, burrowing mammals, worms, mites nematodes and soil microbes — rivals the tropical rainforest for biological ...

The topic of how to manage grasslands — or more specifically, native prairie — came up in conversation recently. One of the participants suggested that all grazing animals should be removed, and just ...

The American prairie was so vast ... of preserving the threatened cultural heritage of the Plains tribes in South Dakota. There’s also a great outfit called the Buffalo Grasslands Coalition, which is ...

“Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie” looks at the biological diversity of prairie and the threats to its disappearance.

BISMARCK – The USDA Forest Service Dakota Prairie Grasslands has issued an Emergency Fire Closure Order Restriction for all National Forest System lands within the Little Missouri National ...