In central North America, prairie wetlands provide many important ecosystem services including attenuating floods, improving water quality, and supporting biodiversity. However, over half of these ...

Bill Sproul ranches 2,200 acres in the Flint Hills according to a philosophy he calls "community-based conservation," which he developed after reading Aldo Leopold's seminal collection of essays about ...

The grassland-dependent lesser prairie-chicken was recently listed under the Endangered Species Act. Why? Because the purpose of the Act is to conserve the ecosystems upon which we and all other ...