Great Plains could see its most significant drought in a decade. ... The combination of dry air, below average precipitation and dry vegetation is also increasing the risk of wildfire.

In the Great Plains, widespread drought has dried up water supplies, decimated crop harvests, and left cattle with no grass to eat. ... CONDOS: His baby wheat plants are holding on for now, barely.

Dryness in the Great Plains began spreading east this year, affecting much of the Midwest and endangering crops, livestock and river shipping. Recent rains have been a god-send, but will it be ...

Trees have been encroaching on the Great Plains, shrinking grazing acres and contributing to an increase in wildfires. But private landowners are working to restore grasslands with controlled burns.

Some regions, such as areas of the Central Great Plains, still rely heavily on fallow. There, the climate is so dry that alternative farming techniques, such as crop sequencing, are not currently ...

Over the course of 12 months, an area of Great Plains grasslands bigger than the state of Delaware was erased from the map. In 2021 alone, 1.6 million acres were plowed across the United States ...

Across the Great Plains, from Texas and Oklahoma to the Dakotas, more than 60 landowner-led burn groups have taken root since the 1990s as landowners realize that fire can solve more problems than ...

Great Plains Bison Were Brought Back From the Brink of Extinction—A Remarkable, Century-long Conservation Success Story Published Jan 21, 2019 at 7:48 AM EST An American bison pictured around 1930.

With the establishment of additional populations on public and private lands across the Great Plains, the species was saved from immediate extinction. By 1920 it numbered about 12,000 .