Thursday 20th November 2025

A University of Nebraska professor says conservation techniques used by ranchers are saving the world’s largest intact grasslands.

Craig Allen says over several decades the Sandhills are becoming more resilient. “It is always very amazing to me how well the stocking rates in the Sandhills are kept quite a bit low what could be done with vegetation for the purposes of maintaining that vegetation and maintaining the Sandhills as a sandy landscape and not as a blowout,” he says.

   

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