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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Returning bison to their original range on the Great Plains will require landscape-scale, transboundary cooperation between Tribal Nations, private landowners and multiple levels of government across ...

The challenge, he said, is “basically managing that transition” to a fully arid Great Plains. But human-caused climate change is helping drive the decline in rainfalls, exacerbating the problem.

But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they're heating up the earth ... west across the center of the country can cost the landscape more of its valuable reflectivity than the trees ...