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, ...

Feds don’t dig giant Palouse earthworm endangered petition Mon., July 25, 2011 In this April 12 photo provided by the University of Idaho, an adult giant Palouse earthworm is 10 to 12 inches long.

Couples buy land abutting Steptoe Butte in the Palouse prairie, with plans to turn it over to the state for conservation. The property is home to heirloom apples, deer, elk, moose and other wildlife.

These images of the Palouse Grasslands, in rural Washington state, were painstakingly harvested over a period of days, then overlaid on one another to give the sharpest and most stunning quality ...

PLUMMER, Idaho -- Almost $1 million is coming to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe to help restore the Palouse native grassland. $937,212 was awarded to the Tribe by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to ...

The rolling grasslands of the region, called the Palouse, are believed to be the species’ historic habitat. Most Read Local Stories Gunman started Idaho blaze and then fatally shot 2 ...

Botanists have discovered several new flowering plants in a Northwest grassland. ... Take, for example, Washington's Palouse. "The Palouse prairie was once covered with native bunch grasses.

If you want to see what the Palouse looked like two centuries ago, you might look for a stretch of land south of Moscow called Paradise Ridge. Here, wildflowers and bunchgrasses cover the land ...

The Spokesman-Review, July 25, 2011 . Feds don’t dig giant Palouse earthworm endangered petition By Rich. A large white earthworm (Driloleius americanus) native to portions of Idaho and Washington ...