Once upon a time, vast expanses of North America were covered in wild prairie, shimmering oceans of grass festooned with wildflowers and teeming with animal life. Today, less than 15% of tallgrass ...

The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground. In ...

Transition to Urban Native Plant Pocket Prairie. Clip: ... If you've got a short grass prairie, well,you might just be kind of mowing and raking and even with a mid-grass prairie with blue grama ...

Tallgrass prairie, an ecosystem made up of a variety of tall grasses, is making a comeback, as people everywhere from Winnipeg to Selkirk, about 40 km northeast of the capital, shift from turf ...

In an urban prairie, Buffalograss can be an understory to taller shortgrass prairie grasses such as Little Bluestem (Blog Entry 4-17-2023) or Sideoats Grama (Blog entries 1-24-2021 and 4-10-2023).

As part of my PhD thesis at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, I study the Texas brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi) in the short-grass prairie.My colleagues and I work on the Southern ...

Ornamental grasses are often under-utilized in the prairie landscape. Whether they are used as a taller focal point in a perennial bed or as a group of short clump grasses in a rock garden, the ...

Plant biomass went up, mostly due to a doubling of grass biomass, from the mid-1980s through 2016. That sounds like a big buffet for grasshoppers, but their populations declined by more than 2 ...

Restoring what remains of America’s short grass prairie ecosystems has been identified by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as a priority in the agency’s efforts to rehabilitate the ...

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Prairie Fire sedge (Carex testacea) is a lovely tufted evergreen plant with a big personality.Although they look similar, sedges aren’t the same as ornamental grasses. Here is a short rhyme to ...