The Effects of Management Practices an Grassland Birds—An Introduction to North American Grasslands and the Practices Used to Manage Grasslands and Grassland Birds

The grasslands of North America can be divided into several major biogeographic regions, including the tallgrass, mixed-grass, and shortgrass prairies of the Great Plains; the desert grasslands of the southwestern United States and Mexico; the California grasslands; the Palouse prairie in the Intermountain Region (that is, the area between the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade and Sierra mountain ranges) of northwestern United States and British Columbia; the fescue prairie of northern Montana, southern Alberta, and central Saskatchewan; and the coastal grasslands of the Gulf Coast (Sims and Risser, 2000).