Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

When I think about nature, I’m picturing hillsides and meadows free of straight lines, squares, and cubes. Look at any ...

This spring marks the 90th anniversary of the federal agency that was born out of that ecological disaster, what’s now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Yet after nine decades, the ...

The giant policy bill muscled through Congress by Republicans is poised to remake American energy by slashing tax breaks for ...

With a vast landscape of land across the High Plains, it presents an opportunity for companies to develop renewable energy ...

The Nachusa Grasslands, a 4,000-acre plot in Franklin Grove, Illinois, is home to a herd of 100 wild American Bison, which ...

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...

When you picture Colorado, you likely imagine majestic, towering mountains. Although the mountains are abundant, a large ...

Africa’s Great Migration sees millions of wildebeest and zebra thunder across the sun-bleached savannah, drawn by instinct to ...

The Prairie Arts Center’s annual NEBRASKAland Days Competitive Art Show celebrates the beauty and spirit of Nebraska through 146 works of art.

In 1915, a political party called the Nonpartisan League was founded in North Dakota to combat what its members, mostly farmers, saw as exploitation by corporations and financial institutions. The ...