The Palouse grasslands have long been known to be of ecological significance and import. Stretching across state lines in Washington, Idaho and Oregon, the landscape of rolling hills, fertile prairies ...

The Palouse Highway begins in a commercial zone — there's a sprawling Target complex, a McDonald's and an expanse of often well-populated soccer fields. But head a little farther south, and the road ...

Before Europeans settled and converted it to agriculture, the Palouse region was a vast sea of grass and native vegetation with small pockets of forest. Pullman botanist Richard Old said more than 99% ...