Humans have thrived in grassland ecosystems for millennia. Grasslands, particularly those in Africa, have been referred to as the “cradle of human evolution.” The rich soils and other benefits ...

Different parts of the world refer to their grasslands by different names – for instance ‘savannah’ in Africa, ‘cerrado’ in South America, ‘prairie’ in North America, ‘steppe’ in central Asia, ‘meadow ...

A television public service announcement featuring regenerative ranching on South Dakota grasslands recently won a Northern Midwest Regional Emmy Award. The South Dakota Grassland Coalition’s PSA is ...

Bison lived for the past 10,000 years on the rich grasslands of the Great Plains of North America from what is now Canada to Mexico. On the northern Great Plains where my ancestors lived bison ...

Today, there are about 20,000 plains bison living in North America’s wild grasslands. In 2016, 89 Elk Island plains bison — descendants from the original herd — returned home to the ...

Other types of grassland grasses include a much taller type called big bluestem, which grows with very deep roots in the wetter parts of North America. In the 1930s settlers ploughed the big ...

Prairies are a kind of temperate grassland found in North America that are home to a diverse community of plants made up of native grasses and herbaceous flowering plants known as forbs. Prairies lack ...