Walking to and from lectures on WSU’s campus may as well be a trek across frozen skidways as winter settles in the Palouse.

Grasslands and meadow-steppe vegetation are the prototypical natural vegetation of the region, but most of the area has been converted to crop lands. RANGE: The giant Palouse earthworm inhabits the ...

Numerous species dependent on the prairie have experienced dramatic population declines, and many plants are thought to have disappeared from the region altogether. Determined to prevent the giant ...

The coldest day of the winter so far was experienced Monday in north central Idaho and southeastern Washington.