The Pawnee National Grassland motor vehicle use map is now available on the Web and will be available by mid-May in local U.S. Forest Service offices. The map identifies all routes open to motorized ...

Sorry, tropical rain forests. Grasslands have the most plant species—at least when the area studied is smaller than a few parking spaces. In a recent study ...

TREATING BISON LIKE CATTLE: The Forest Service doesn’t plan to restore herds of wild bison to national grasslands. Instead, it would make it easier to lease grassland for domesticated bison, like this ...

This may be the most bizarre map I have ever seen the U.S. Forest Service put out for Oregon and Washington. Where did the bridges go? First, some background. The is managed as part of the Ochoco ...

A University of Illinois doctoral candidate received a $150,000 investment from NASA to create a detailed grassland map using remote sensing. Wendy Dorman, the recipient of the prestigious three-year ...

A global study shows that the effects of extreme drought -- which is expected to increase in frequency with climate change -- has been greatly underestimated for grasslands and shrublands. The ...

Savannas and grasslands cover a vast area, some 20 percent of the earth’s land surface — from sub-Saharan Africa, to the Cerrado in Brazil, to North America’s heartland. They also offer an enormous ...