Fire crews from 11 departments contained a 6,000-acre fire north of Maxwell Wednesday night around 7:30 p.m., Brandon Myers ...

The Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, Fort Pierre National Grassland is planning prescribed fire operations this month. We estimate this work to continue through ...

Kyle Martens has been exploring rural landscapes his entire life. Martens, originally from the Sioux City, Iowa, area and ...

Portions of east central and northeast Colorado, northwest and west central Kansas, and southwest Nebraska ... 10 AM TO 8 PM CDT FRIDAY FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR CENTRAL, SOUTH ...

A video shared to YouTube by a wildlife researcher shows a coyote and a badger teaming up to hunt prairie dogs.

It’s showtime in central Nebraska. As many as 50,000 cranes have ... native species and holding subscribed burns to manage grasslands, which have largely disappeared from that landscape.

The Rocky Mountain Region of the USDA Forest Service is hiring up to 50 temporary wildland firefighters and fire support positions for the 2025 fire year across ...

The best time to prepare for drought is long before it arrives, Nebraska Extension specialist Jerry Volesky says.

Credit: pexels.com. Prairie dogs play a key role in grassland ecosystems but encounter many threats. These cute 18” tall tan rodents live in small pockets of habitat across 10 western U.S. states: ...

Dear EarthTalk: "Are prairie dogs threatened or endangered these days?" – Joseph P., via email ...

Experts say Arizona will continue to have a heightened risk of wildfires in 2025 as a relatively dry winter comes to a close.

Dust storms raged across New Mexico on Tuesday, snarling highway traffic as the National Weather Service pushed an emergency ...