Disease, drought and predators like mountain lions have all been blamed for the herd’s demise. Unfortunately, large die-offs ...

So, Wind Cave’s aboveground landscape is a portal in its own right: a way to slip back in time to see a rare mixed-grass prairie ecosystem. That’s why I came, even if I had to search all night to find ...

Although medium sized for a grasshopper, it is one of the largest of the graminivorous species. Live weights of females inhabiting the mixed-grass prairie range from 285 to 663 mg (average 476 mg) and ...

Some restoration projects in the mixed-grass prairie zone are now showing promise after years of labour and great expense, but they’re very small, and none replicate the full matrix of plant and ...