Nebraska has a couple of unique game animals to offer hunters. Those animals are the prairie chicken and sharp-tailed grouse. The wide open expanse of tall grass prairie that Nebraska ...

Nebraska’s Sandhills — the last bastion of North American prairie grouse. Two species, sharptails and prairie chickens, inhabit these ancient dunes, but it’s the latter that is particularly ...

Nebraska’s longest-serving lawmaker is once again trying to repeal a law that could allow county officials to kill black-tailed prairie dogs on private property if a neighbor complains.

Aerial surveys in Nebraska indicated that in 1987 there were an estimated 73,000 acres of prairie dog towns. By 2003, that survey taken over the 40 counties considered prime prairie dog habitat ...

Pocket Prairie is a nod to Nebraska’s beauty. “What we like to do is show people what small aspects of Nebraska could have looked like before Omaha went up around it,” Pellerite says.

LINCOLN — A federal agency has banned prairie dog hunting on 24,000 acres south of the Platte River, the first formal protection for the animal in Nebraska.

Nebraska wildlife advocates and a farmers group asked lawmakers Tuesday to repeal a law designed to limit the spread of black-tailed prairie dogs, a critical native species that some ranchers ...

Parts of Nebraska and Iowa are being evacuated due to prairie fires and high winds. Winds have topped 60 mph in many regions causing the fires to spread.

A prairie dog is enticed with food during its release at the Hutton Niobrara Ranch Wildlife Sanctuary near Bassett, Nebraska. Most of 230 prairie dogs captured at the former Aldrich Prairie ...

ОМАНА, Neb., Dec. 5.—Nebraska's prairie "volcano" is again in a state of eruption, after resting quietly since 1879. This very peculiar freak of nature was seen first by white men when ...

Google has bulldozed five acres of native prairie in Omaha, against City of Omaha guidelines, according to biologists. The plot of prairie land on the junction of State Street and Nebraska Highway 133 ...