Despite a goal in the 2004-14 plan to add 15,000 acres to the Central Wisconsin Grassland Conservation Area, the state only managed to acquire 3,488 acres and obtain leases on 1,636 acres.

As a citizen of this nation I am a public land owner, and you are too! Public lands are held in trust for the benefit of all ...

By Mitch Smith The sentence, dull but clear, was buried 158 pages into Wisconsin’s budget. “For the limit for the 2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year,” the sentence read when it ...

Wisconsin farmers would be incentivized to ... With good grazing management and good grassland cover, what happens is a lot of the water that falls on the ground infiltrates, versus running ...

In the office where she worked, projects included helping the Sand County Foundation to restore southwest Wisconsin grasslands, and reducing phosphorus runoff from farmland to keep the chemicals out ...

At full capacity, the Vista Sands Solar Project is expected to generate enough electricity to power over 200,000 Wisconsin ...

small-town Wisconsin coffee shops for a dose of hygge in the winter Several conservationists and wildlife advocates had raised concerns about the project's proximity to the Buena Vista Grassland ...

Grassland Dairy Products Inc. has been ordered to pay a $300,000 penalty to Wisconsin for violating state water pollution laws. Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced the settlement ...

Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.

Grasslands are vast areas of natural vegetation that might include lush green grass running across miles and miles. They are seen as intermediaries between forests at one end and deserts at the other.

Many of Wisconsin's world's largest things reflect its agriculture industry: a round barn, a talking cow, a potato masher.

A lone pronghorn in sage brush. Photo by Tobiason / NPS A bipartisan quartet of U.S. representatives today introduced the North American Grasslands Conservation Act which, if passed by Congress, would ...