Researchers analyzed accounts of historic tallgrass prairie fires in eight Midwestern states. Map of the central U.S., with blue-green, dark green and light green zones demarcating the original extent ...

It's easy to envision the world that pioneers encountered while looking at a herd of bison grazing at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in east-central Kansas. Little has changed over the decades on ...

MANHATTAN – The Flint Hills make a visual statement that is unlike anyplace else: wide swaths of open prairie stretching over short, steep hills unbroken by trees and shrubs. In late summer and fall, ...

Wildflowers bloom on a grassland near Manhattan, the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Some trees can be seen in the distance. Keeping trees and shrubs at bay is part of prairie conservation. Kansas ...

In late summer and fall, prairie grasses in Kansas’ Flint Hills can grow as high as eight feet tall. But right now, the grass is still short and wildflowers are the stars of the prairie. MANHATTAN – ...