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The Service and our partners continue to publish stories, videos, and StoryMaps about our work in the Central Grasslands. Take a look at all of our content to learn more about conserving the Central Grasslands

Craig Larson kneels on grasslands next to prairie flowers

Stewards of the Land: Craig Larson, ‘Banker by Day, Farmhand by Weekend’

Over $120M From Inflation Reduction Act Advances Resilience

Working Together to Respond to and Prepare for a Changing Climate

West Texas landscape

Habitat Restoration

Partners For Fish and Wildlife Restores Thousands of Acres for Texas Wildlife in 2022

The center of the continental US is colored purple, yellow, and green stretching from northern Mexico to Canada. Splotches of green form a line from New Mexico to Alberta showing the cores of intact grasslands. Expanding outward from the green are swaths of yellow, mixed with green and purple. Yellow indicates at-risk grasslands and touches several US states including Iowa and Texas, and Alberta. The purple area, depicting plowed land, tree encroachment is the largest area from Mexico to Alberta to Illinois

Land Management

Central Grasslands Assessment Map: A new tool to ensure the future of our grasslands

Endangered Species Act

Lesser Prairie-Chicken Listed Under the Endangered Species Act

windmill and flowers in the prairie

Habitat Restoration

Monitoring Grassland Restoration for Wildlife, Communities

The Butterfly Effect: A Small Voice with a Big Story

Lesser prairie-chicken habitat conservation plan for oil and gas development in the Great Plains approved

Illustration of two brown cows grazing at the edge of a pool

Grazing for Conservation

Bill Sproul, a rancher wearing a button-up blue shirt and ivory-colored cowboy hat, crouches in grass with his horse visible in the background

Stewards of the Land: Ranchers on the Front Lines of Conservation

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases final recovery plan to save a prairie butterfly species

Mid-Plains Interagency Fire Management Zone Receives Midwest Regional Fire Management Award

Conservation Organizations Join Forces to Support Conservation in the Prairies