I drove across the Flint Hills and found myself unexpectedly awash in winter light. On Highway 177 in Chase County I passed ...

reconstruct and manage the diverse native ecosystems of tallgrass prairie, oak savanna and sedge meadow”. Such ecosystems once covered 85 percent of the state’s area, but now account for about ...

In the middle of America, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve offers an intimate, grounding experience. The best time to visit Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is late May through early June, when ...

“A 117-acre family farm was donated to UK for tall grass prairie restoration,” the release proclaimed, about the land in Logan County. “It will be the first of its kind in the state.” There was reason ...

It was going to be a daunting task. In front of Anpetu-Tokeka lay the tall grass prairie that spread over 150 miles of gently rolling hills in the Minnesota countryside. Reared in the North ...

In the west it is a common inhabitant of the tallgrass prairie and the taller types of the mixedgrass prairie. The Keeler grasshopper is a minor pest of rangeland forage. When present, populations ...

It’s been roughly 3 1/2 years since I began writing this weekly history column. At this point, I think it’s safe to say that I like to write. I can’t quite put my finger on why, ...

Try to envision an ecosystem in peril and you might conjure images of the Amazon rainforest or the Great Barrier Reef. But right here in North America you'll find one of the rarest and most ...

The program will feature Laura Fischer Walter, the plant materials program manager at the University of Northern Iowa ...