Drought resistant, low maintenance, colorful, and versatile are a few of the attributes of ornamental grasses. There are many kinds of ornamental grasses most of which are perennials although many ...

From the savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa to the prairies of the Northern Great Plains and cool temperate steppes, about 40 percent of the Earth’s landmass is covered with grasses. These grasslands host ...

The Rolling Plains mixed grass prairies are essential foundations of natural communities and provide many services to humans. However, very little native prairie remains throughout the United States.

Temperate grasslands are areas of open grassy plains that are sparsely populated with trees. ... The thick dry grass in temperate grasslands can fuel fires that spread for hundreds of miles.

The same drought-fueled fires are now becoming bigger in deserts because of annual grasses, which unlike the perennial grasses in the Plains, don't exist year-round.

Native grass used to cover 71 million acres of the region, but there has been lots of change over the years. For example, in Kansas, 80% of those grasslands have been lost to cropland, drought or ...

These served as hunting methods of Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains before the return of horses. Buffalo Hunt under the Wolf-skin Mask by George Catlin, 1832-1833. Smithsonian American Art ...

It was on Hempstead Plains that New Market racecourse was established in 1665. Looking west in 1908, from the Carman Avenue Bridge over Long Island Motor Parkway in East Meadow, the photographer ...

Members of the Friends of Brookside Park, a community group in Scotch Plains, are fighting a $3.8 million bond ordinance that would convert a grass field in Brookside Park into artificial turf.

Here's why and how I plant ornamental grasses, although many are not hardy in our area and must be treated as annuals. Texas flooding death count increases to 32; search and rescue ongoing ...