It’s calving season and all across the West ranchers are watching the sizes of their herds grow. It’s also the beginning of a new season on most ranches, but in the midst of a historic, persistent ...

Ninety percent of the approximately 29 grassland bird species breeding in the Western Great Plains — including these sparrows — winter in the Chihuahuan Desert. Since the 1960s, however, grassland ...

Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced $3.7 million in conservation grants to help restore and sustain grassland systems ...

A recent study in Ecology used fenced exclosures like this one to show that, over 25 years, small herbivores like rodents and rabbits had a greater impact on Chihuahuan Desert vegetation than cattle ...

ALPINE The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is an area of incredible biodiversity with more rare and endemic species of wildlife than anywhere else in the state. Chihuahuan Desert grasslands are one of the ...

For much of the 20th century, boom and bust cycles of desert grasses in the US Southwest were linked to long-term cycles of temperature in the Pacific Ocean. That link now appears to have been broken, ...