Grassland Bird Species to Know When you think of the historic Great Plains, you probably imagine vast herds of bison grazing ...

One tree does not make a forest, but a lone tree can nevertheless function as a small-scale ecosystem. Considering all the ...

Now, the 960-acre Orland Grassland Land and Water Reserve near Orland Park offers a glimpse of that ancient landscape, thanks to the removal of drain tiles and environmental mitigation work taken ...

But sometimes restoring a grassland ecosystem simply means setting things up for the landscape to restore itself: thinning trees, burning the understory, and watching as the soil awakens.

Tuda Crews drives her pickup with the windows down. Tires crunch softly over gravel and dirt. A spring breeze rustles long grasses on the Ute Creek Ranch, located east of Roy in a remote corner of ...

Grasslands that have been tilled-up to plant crops, even decades ago, are likely to be both less productive and less resilient than lands without that use legacy. While contemporary stocking rates ...

A researcher from the University of Southampton (UK) has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to 30 ...

A researcher has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to 30 million years ago. A researcher from the ...