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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

Five firefighters tend to a prescribed fire

Land Management

Using Fire to Manage Grasslands

Land Management

Continued Decline of Wetlands Documented in New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report

Habitat Restoration

Restoring the prairies for wildlife and people

A Coordinated Approach for Grassland Conservation

Five volunteers with shovels are building a trail

Land Management

Opening the Toolbox

two people walking towards sunset through sagebrush landscape

Conserving the Ocean of Grass and Sage

Distant view of a river winding through prairie.

An Introduction to Wetland Classification

A man wearing a cowboy hat and a woman walk hand-in-hand across a grassy field

Stewards of the Land: Black Leg Ranch

Jennifer and Chad Kunz with Curt Francis, all standing next to a utility vehicle on a grassland

Habitat Restoration

Stewards of the Land: Kunz Farm, A Story of the Great American West

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

Land Management

Continued Decline of Wetlands Documented in New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report

Over $120M From Inflation Reduction Act Advances Resilience

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

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

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

Texas’ Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken Wild Population Reaches 28 Year High

Birds fly over desert wetland with mountains in background.

Wildlife Management

Secretary Bernhardt Announces $160 Million in Funding for Wetland Conservation Projects and National Wildlife Refuges

Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District Helping Neighboring Ranchers After Floods

Endangered Species Act

Thunder Basin Grassland Prairie Ecosystem Association Conservation Efforts

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designates Critical Habitat for Two Prairie Butterflies under the Endangered Species Act

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

Five firefighters tend to a prescribed fire

Land Management

Using Fire to Manage Grasslands

Habitat Restoration

Restoring the prairies for wildlife and people

A Coordinated Approach for Grassland Conservation

Five volunteers with shovels are building a trail

Land Management

Opening the Toolbox

two people walking towards sunset through sagebrush landscape

Conserving the Ocean of Grass and Sage

Distant view of a river winding through prairie.

An Introduction to Wetland Classification

A man wearing a cowboy hat and a woman walk hand-in-hand across a grassy field

Stewards of the Land: Black Leg Ranch

Jennifer and Chad Kunz with Curt Francis, all standing next to a utility vehicle on a grassland

Habitat Restoration

Stewards of the Land: Kunz Farm, A Story of the Great American West

Craig Larson kneels on grasslands next to prairie flowers

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

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

windmill and flowers in the prairie

Habitat Restoration

Monitoring Grassland Restoration for Wildlife, Communities