Boulder County Parks and Open Space will host an event to showcase shortgrass prairie ecosystems on Aug. 15. According to a release, rangers invite community members to participate in “The Hidden ...

What remains of the stunning shortgrass prairie of eastern Colorado is at even more risk of die-off than previously thought, threatened by increasingly common extreme droughts. The same fate awaits ...

Prairies used to cover a swath of America from Mexico to Canada. But not all prairies are the same. Different conditions dictate each prairie ecosystem, and thus what plants and animals exist in each ...

In a remote corner of the short grass prairie plains south of Malta, something new and something ancient is recreating itself. It’s not simple and not universally supported, but through the efforts of ...

The Hidden Worlds of the Shortgrass Prairie talk: 6 p.m. Thursday, Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Discover the quiet beauty of the shortgrass prairie in Boulder County. Prairies, ...

EADS — Colorado’s Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site marking one of the nation’s bloodiest assaults on Native people will more than double in size to cover more than 6,500 acres of shortgrass ...

Eastern Laramie County has no mountains, but it is not flat. We were looking for birds north of Hillsdale (a town name indicating the varied topography), walking across the shortgrass prairie on a ...

A football-sized spotted brown bird sits atop a mound of dirt in the shortgrass prairie southeast of Colorado Springs. It's hard to distinguish the faraway creature from the prairie dogs that it ...

Bison carry seed across thousands of miles when they eat the grass, and then they move the seed up to other parts of the ...