What remains of the stunning shortgrass prairie of eastern Colorado is at even more risk of die-off than previously thought, threatened by increasingly common extreme droughts. The same fate awaits ...

Boulder County Parks and Open Space will host an event to showcase shortgrass prairie ecosystems on Aug. 15. According to a release, rangers invite community members to participate in “The Hidden ...

Bison carry seed across thousands of miles when they eat the grass, and then they move the seed up to other parts of the ...

Prairies used to cover a swath of America from Mexico to Canada. But not all prairies are the same. Different conditions dictate each prairie ecosystem, and thus what plants and animals exist in each ...

The Hidden Worlds of the Shortgrass Prairie talk: 6 p.m. Thursday, Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Discover the quiet beauty of the shortgrass prairie in Boulder County. Prairies, ...

Eastern Laramie County has no mountains, but it is not flat. We were looking for birds north of Hillsdale (a town name indicating the varied topography), walking across the shortgrass prairie on a ...

The Hidden Worlds of the Shortgrass Prairie: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sandstone Ranch Visitor Center, Sandstone Drive, Longmont. Discover the quiet beauty of the shortgrass prairie, a native ecosystem in ...

An article about our short native grasses lets me talk about two of my favorite things: Native plants and bison. Since I was very young, I have been fascinated by bison. They were a cornerstone of the ...

In a remote corner of the short grass prairie plains south of Malta, something new and something ancient is recreating itself. It’s not simple and not universally supported, but through the efforts of ...