An ambitious and privately funded project to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve where buffalo may roam and antelope ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it is revoking grazing permits in Phillips County that American ...

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 ...

Bison carry seed across thousands of miles when they eat the grass, and then they move the seed up to other parts of the grassland. That’s really important for evolution and mixing genetics amongst ...

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.

An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to ...

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 ...