A lone bison grazing in Montana. The short-grass prairies of our Northern Great Plains are some of the least protected ...

It's easy to get lost in the sheer size and beauty of Ted Turner's sprawling Vermejo nature reserve that straddles the ...

Of the approximately 600,000 acres AP owns or has grazing rights on, it currently stocks about 1,000 bison. In the seven-county area where AP operates, there are about 500,000 cattle — a bison to ...

In justifying last week’s decision to revoke American Prairie’s bison grazing permits, the BLM relied on a contorted reading ...

In September, our governor and members of the federal delegation sent a letter to U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opposing the American Prairie (AP) grazing their “non-production” bi ...

LOGAN COUNTY — Smoky Valley Ranch in western Kansas, about 40 minutes south of Colby, experienced one of the driest years on record in 2022. The almost 20,000-acre cattle and bison ranch recorded just ...

This past March, a wildfire caused by high winds and a smoldering brush pile tore through 130 acres in Yates Center, consuming the Yates Center Health and Rehabilitation Center, a senior living ...

Eastern red cedars surround the Rockefeller Prairie from all sides at the University of Kansas field station north of Lawrence, where researchers have studied the effects of both fire and grazing on ...

On Dec. 12, 2025, Karen Grassle attended the Little House on the Prairie Final 50th Anniversary Reunion in Simi Valley, Calif. The festive three-day gathering brought together iconic cast members, ...

At grassland sites worldwide, including the Midwest and Great Plains, scientists simulated extreme drought conditions. The study provides a far-reaching and systematic look at the effects of drought ...

The tallgrass prairie is mostly confined to the Kansas Flint Hills in eastern Kansas. But earlier this year, some of that grass - up to 5 feet tall - started sprouting further west, out in the Smoky ...