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 ...

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 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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER, April 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced $2.81 million in grants to maintain or improve nearly 65,000 acres of interconnected, native ...

The Obama administration said today that applications for oil wells and ancillary facilities in two national grasslands areas of North and South Dakota will be among 14 U.S. infrastructure projects to ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Much of South Dakota has a high or very high chance for grassland fires Tuesday afternoon. Over 40 counties across the state are considered at very high risk and 20 counties ...

pots, geysers and mineral terraces of Yellowstone that make you wonder what planet you accidentally landed on. Think of this grassland as open. To some, that means the same as empty or void, ...