We normally think of trees as being good for the environment. But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they're heating up the earth as woodlands take over grasslands. It’s Environment 101 ...

The Mushrush family is beating back a juggernaut unleashed by humans — a Green Glacier of trees and shrubs grinding slowly across the Great Plains and burying some of the most threatened habitat on ...

The Mushrush family is beating back a juggernaut unleashed by humans — a Green Glacier of trees and shrubs grinding slowly across the Great Plains and burying some of the most threatened habitat ...

Mr. Vaughan is a freelance journalist and a native of Nebraska who writes frequently about the Great Plains. He is the author of “Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream.” ...

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Franklin Roosevelt asked destitute Great Plains farmers to stop growing wheat and start growing trees. The idea seemed crazy. Unemployment was rampant in the mid-1930s, and families across the ...

Periodic wildfires have helped to define the Great Plains and the sorts of plants and animals who live there. The flames ...

Some trees were removed by taking a backhoe and ... Resources Conservation Service has an initiative called the Great Plains Grassland Biome. The focus of this initiative is to destroy the cedars ...

But new research clarifies that deploying trees against global warming backfires in parts of the U.S. and Canada, including much of the Great Plains. “Trees are great in the right place,” said ...

You can recognize a sycamore (Platanus) tree by its bark full of smooth, irregular shapes resembling camouflage. These trees are mostly found east of the Great Plains.

But Black Sunday marked the most devastating dust storm in American history, putting Harley and hundreds of thousands of others throughout the Great Plains ... (planting trees or bushes to serve ...

They’re free—“we cut these juniper trees from the prairie anyway”—but the Southern Plains Land Trust does ask for a donation to help with expenses. Last year, Westveer said they received ...