The development of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking has led to an increase in oil
and natural gas extraction. Development of infrastructure to extract and transport these …

Over the last 90 years, dry mixed grass prairie across North America has been severely
impacted by agriculture, urbanization, and oil and gas operations, presenting significant …

Plains rough fescue (Festuca hallii), once a dominant grassland in the Northern Great
Plains, has been reduced to a fraction of its original extent by agricultural intensification and …

Quantifying the impacts of soil disturbance on crop yield after installing an underground
pipeline is essential for implementing effective mitigation plans and land restoration …

Purpose Road traffic has long been recognized as a considerable source of ecological
disturbance, compromising the integrity of natural ecosystems from their pristine baseline …

Over the past 100 years, large areas of native grasslands have been lost due to human
activities and natural disturbances. Construction of pipelines for oil and gas transportation …

In the mixed grass prairie region of North America, well sites and their associated
infrastructure have many ecological effects, including changes to soil physical, chemical and …

Plains rough fescue (Festuca hallii), once dominant in grasslands of the Northern Great
Plains, has been reduced to remnants mainly through agricultural and energy sector …

Activities associated with agriculture, grazing, and the energy industry have altered large
tracts of native rangeland in North America. Pipelining causes intense local disturbance by …

Reclamation of surface disturbances on grasslands is an important management issue. This
research examined how cattle grazing and revegetation treatments influenced vegetation …