nearly a third of North America was once covered in grassland. When people hear prairie, many may imagine farm fields growing golden wheat. Farming aside, this habitats plants evolved to tolerate ...

But one of the most interesting earthworms of all — the giant Palouse earthworm, native to the Palouse prairie grassland — is literally being ... experienced dramatic population declines, and many ...

And they moved from the prairies to the foothills along ... knowledge keepers of domesticated and undomesticated plant life, including grassland ecology and anthropogenic fire.

More than 70% of Canada’s prairie grassland has been converted for farming ... and their habit of rolling in the dirt creates microhabitats for plants. Birds build nests with their hair, and ...

"The Prairie Preacher" follows Dr. Dwayne Estes, a botanist who earned his nickname for his passionate advocacy of grassland conservation. Once a child who found solace in nature, Estes now ...

If we fail to grant grassland places the same value ... and none replicate the full matrix of plant and animal life on original prairie sites. Protection of our remaining prairie is first and ...

Restoration activities including buffer strips, native plant seeding, wetland restoration and water level management. Enhancement of prairies and grasslands through prescribed fire, conservation ...