The Great Plains are the grasslands of the North American continent, and lie between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile ...

The full interplay between human cultures and natural communities on the last large remnants of native prairie on the northern Great Plains is the subject of Grasslands: A Hidden Wilderness ...

And temperate grasslands, as a whole ... Prior to European settlement, North America’s Great Plains were home to enormous, thundering herds of bison. Wolves and grizzly bears thrived at the ...

The new donation will be used to revitalize 1.6 million acres of vital U.S. landscapes - the northern great plains grasslands ...

Bennett was a champion of soil conservation methods, to the extent that he favored reverting a large part of the Great Plains back to grasslands. He wrote in 1943, “If we are bold in our ...

The bumblebees previously inhabited 26 states across the Great Plains and along the southeastern Gulf coastal plain. Southern Plains bumblebees have declined over multiple decades and are now half as ...

The American burying beetle’s comeback signals broader recovery in grassland biodiversity, providing a blueprint for addressing other conservation challenges across the Great Plains. The study ...

“Our results suggest that many grasslands in the central Great Plains have substantially lower plant biodiversity than would have occurred before bison were widely wiped out,” Ratajczak said.

HABITAT: This bison inhabits prairie grasslands and hills. RANGE: Bison once roamed from Florida through the eastern deciduous forests and Great Plains to the Cascade Mountains in Washington, from ...