Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the ...

When bison graze, they leave behind nutrient-rich dung that fertilizes the soil, spurring new growth. Their wallows—shallow depressions where they roll in the dust—collect rainwater ...

The Dust Bowl, a two-part ... grounds of many Native American tribes and the range of untold millions of bison. It was seldom used for farming. Bitterly cold winters, hot summers, high winds ...

Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, is known for its powerful particle accelerator and cutting-edge research in particle physics, but outside the U.S. Department of Energy facility, the bison that roam ...