In the third episode, we spend our time in “The Wild West,” a landscape populated by fearsome rattlesnakes, industrious ...

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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 ...

Mr. Vaughan is a freelance journalist and a native of Nebraska who writes frequently about the Great Plains. He is the author of “Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream.” ...

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 ...

MANHATTAN — The prairie of the Great Plains evokes a certain image ... grazed by bison and you’ll see a strikingly different landscape. The sheer variety and numbers of wildflowers that ...

A U.S. Forest Service drawing of a Great Plains farm landscape showing tree "shelterbelts" running north to south and planted roughly 1 mile apart. | Forest Service/USDA Orth noted as much in a ...

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.