Discover why Kansas prairie grasslands are vital, endangered, and how you can help protect this hidden natural treasure.

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 ...

How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.

Prairie dogs stand guard at their hole in Boulder County on July 23, 2015. There’s a place in the heart of Santa Fe, N.M., where a small colony of prairie dogs survives between railroad tracks ...

Melanie and I were on a quest. While on assignment in Manitoba, photographer and reporter set out to document the old-style wooden grain elevators that tower over this prairie landscape.

America by Air: Dog’s Prairie. By Chris Bodenner. February 13, 2016. Share. ... Here’s a photo taken from my home-built plane over the upper Mississippi River near Prairie duChen, WI.

In North America, prairie grassland can be found from Canada to Mexico and includes all the Great Plains, the area of lowland between the Mississippi river and the Rocky Mountains, ...

Prairie madness, as the phenomenon came to be known, was recorded by the journalist E.V. Smalley in 1893 after a decade of observing life on the frontier: “An alarming amount of insanity occurs in the ...