On a recent weekday, short but mighty flames began consuming an expanse of tallgrass in Nachusa Grasslands, their advance marked with crackles and pops. Satisfied with the blaze, a group of eight ...

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

Most of North America’s grasslands have been lost to development. Submitted photo North America’s grasslands consist of tallgrass, mixed grass, and shortgrass prairie. Through expansion, 70% of our ...

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 America’s grasslands consist of tallgrass, mixed grass and shortgrass prairie. Through expansion, 70 percent of our native grasslands have been converted to crops and pasture. Wildlife has ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

Grassland provides many services for humans, animals and nature, such as feed production, carbon storage and recreation. Researchers spent two years investigating permanent grassland, its utilization, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BILLINGS — One cubic yard of tallgrass prairie sod — with its grasses, sedges, flowers, burrowing ...