Chang Gyo Jung, Zhenggang Du, Oleksandra Hararuk, Xia Xu, Junyi Liang, Xuhui Zhou, Dejun Li, Lifen Jiang and Yiqi Luo Soil respiration, the major pathway for ecosystem carbon (C) loss, has the ...

The iron-rich terrain spans two million square miles of mixed-grass and sandsage prairie across Barber, Comanche and Clark counties along the Oklahoma border, but it doesn’t have a historical fire ...

Stay informed about the West. High Country News’ weekly email newsletters keep you up-to-date with our latest news and investigations from across the region. Collecting purple prairie clover (Dalea ...

Prairies once extended in a broad, almost continuous band from southern Saskatchewan, Canada, into the Midwest and Central United States and southward to Texas and New Mexico. These vast grasslands ...

The cover of "Sea of Grass" and authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Chris Bentley/Here & Now) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 1, 2025.

HARLEM, Montana — Concrete grain elevators, steel silos, shelterbelts, and the neat imprints of irrigation furrows punctuate the shallow Milk River Valley. But north of the river, the square irrigated ...

Temperate grasslands and the species that depend on them are in serious trouble. Bison reintroduction is one way land managers are attempting to restore the ecological health of the Great Plains ...

BISMARCK — Millions of years ago, the area now comprising North Dakota and South Dakota was covered by an inland sea. Later, huge, migrating glaciers carved the fertile flat lands that characterize ...

Wildlife as big as bison and as small as quail share thousands of prairie acres with wildflowers and tall native grass at Prairie State Park in southwestern Missouri. The 4,000-acre state park ...

The Red Hills are prime cattle country. The iron-rich terrain spans two million square miles of mixed-grass and sandsage ...