In the third episode, we spend our time in “The Wild West,” a landscape populated by fearsome rattlesnakes, industrious woodpeckers, and the Great Plains, one of the most expansive and diverse ...

It was not always certain that bison could rebound. Once numbering in the tens of millions, they dominated the Great Plains landscape until the late 1800s, anchoring a remarkable ecosystem that ...

It was not always certain that bison could rebound. Once numbering in the tens of millions, they dominated the Great Plains landscape until the late 1800s, anchoring a remarkable ecosystem that ...

Part One: Silent Plains: With a history of neglect, grasslands have become the forgotten ecosystem More: Bison decline contributed to dwindling prairie landscape on Great Plains Once home to free ...

The project's goal is to rewild this swath of the Great Plains and return all the animals that lived on this landscape more than a century ago, before white settlers arrived. Wolves, grizzly bears ...

is really driven by that fundamental change on the landscape.” More: ‘The most imperiled ecosystem’: Grassland wildlife declining in West Texas, Great Plains While data indicates modern ...

Rolling through the land in Casey’s Prius, we’re on the western margin of the northern Great Plains, where shortgrass prairie once dominated the landscape. Casey points out an apple-sized bird ...