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 ...

Quick Take By the 1880s and 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained in the wild, a stark warning about unchecked exploitation.

Wildflowers bloom on a grassland near Manhattan, Kansas, the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Some trees can be seen in the distance. Keeping trees and shrubs at bay is part of prairie conservation.

North American prairies, savannas and grasslands; United States prairies, savannas, and grasslands. Alabama ; Arizona ; Arkansas ; California ; Colorado ; Florida ...

European settlers likened the American prairie to a boundless “sea of grass.” If you zoom in to the perspective of the thousands of species that inhabit this under-appreciated landscape, however, it’s ...

Bison carry seed across thousands of miles when they eat the grass, and then they move the seed up to other parts of the ...

American Prairie’s permit to graze its bison on federal land has been revoked, according to a new proposed decision from the ...

Conservation groups are attempting to acquire a 440-acre, relatively undisturbed forest, prairie and wetlands complex in Wayne County's Brownstown Township. The groups must raise $6 million by the end ...