The Center for Great Plains Studies will host its 50th annual conference focused on regional issues April 8-10 at the ...

F rom the snow-covered landscapes of Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and all points between, The Americas takes viewers ...

Black-footed ferrets, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little ...

The full interplay between human cultures and natural communities on the last large remnants of native prairie on the northern Great Plains is the subject of Grasslands: A Hidden Wilderness ...

Much of the Great Plains has been converted to farming or pastureland, and prairie dogs are not often welcome in such places. Because of their destructive landscaping, they are often killed as pests.

Boulerice, a research ecologist with the Great Plains Science Program at the ... Recovering the ecological landscapes for prairie dogs and ferrets is "one of the biggest challenges in North ...

Sauver said. “Prairie birds, especially in the Midwest and the upper Great Plains, have decreased exponentially over the years since like the 1970s.” In recent years, researchers found that ...