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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 ...
High Plains residents are susceptible to scams and hopefully TRAPS Act can help combat the criminals, Dave Bergmeier writes.
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.
Native Prospects, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, infuses the American landscape tradition with Indigenous perspective ...
American Bison. Image by dmbaker via Depositphotos No animal symbolizes the Great Plains more powerfully than the American bison (Bison bison). Once numbering between 30-60 million individuals, these ...
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 ...
Great Plains. Image via Unsplash. Drought has been a recurring feature in the Great Plains for millennia. Paleoclimate records reveal cycles of wet and dry periods long before European settlement. The ...