Rancher John Lueken (left) and The Nature Conservancy’s Kent Wamsley (right) work together to graze cattle on Dunn Ranch Prairie, helping both the prairie and Lueken’s pasture. Dunn Ranch Prairie has ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 1, 2025. Click here for that audio. The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even ...

With aggressive growing patterns and sinister tactics, Old World bluestem is crowding out native grass species and remaking Kansas prairies. HAYS, Kansas — Keith Harmoney crouches down in a pale ...

ATWOOD, Kan. — There’s a fierce debate raging on the Great Plains over the future of America’s native grasslands. Conservationists are pressing Congress to write tough protections into the next farm ...

PUKWANA, S.D. — For 32 years Larry Wagner has focused on implementing rotational grazing practices on his ranch near Pukwana, South Dakota. As a board member of the South Dakota Grassland Coalition, ...

Grazing animals can shape the grasslands they dine on by preferentially eating certain species, allowing other species to find a foothold. To quantify this effect, Zak Ratajczak at Kansas State ...

What remains of the stunning shortgrass prairie of eastern Colorado is at even more risk of die-off than previously thought, threatened by increasingly common extreme droughts. The same fate awaits ...