BROOKINGS, S.D. — Last summer, the South Dakota Grasslands Initiative was formed as a way to bring people who are passionate about conservation together. “The South Dakota Grasslands Initiative began ...

The South Dakota Grassland Initiative will be conducting around 50 interviews with producers assessing how to improve access to available conservation programs. The South Dakota Grassland Initiative ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced an $83 million grant for South Dakota grassland conservation and climate-smart agricultural practices. Six projects will be undertaken in South Dakota, ...

A “green glacier” of trees is steadily taking over native grasslands. Landowners are banding together to treat the problem ...

In recognizing the importance of grasslands, the South Dakota Grasslands Summit will be March 18 and 19 in Oacoma, South Dakota. The event will focus on opportunities and challenges and the ...

South Dakota landowners enrolled almost 159,000 acres this year — nearly 250 square miles — into a federal conservation program that pays them to use management practices promoting healthy grasslands.

Grass sways in the wind in western South Dakota. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Current property tax laws penalize the maintenance of grasslands and incentivize their conversion to cropland ...

NEAR PRESHO, S.D. -- In the nearly half-century he's lived in South Dakota, John Cooper has seen countless beautiful prairie sunsets. But none perhaps prettier than one on a recent late afternoon that ...

A recently announced partnership will attempt to regenerate native vegetation in eastern South Dakota and the Great Plains, according to a press release from Ducks Unlimited, a wetland conservation ...