In Visions of the Tall Grass: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne, two old friends, photographer Harvey Payne and historian James Ronda, explore what’s left of the prairie they love together.

Dr. Jerry Glover stands next to a 14-foot tangle of Indian grass, compass plant, and big bluestem grass that he grew. He welded together two 55-gallon drums, laced the inside with a wire frame ...

The prairie is an endangered ... T ry to envision an ecosystem in peril and you might conjure images of the Amazon ... Before ...

View full sizeBlue waters, duckweed and grasses in the marshes of Prairie Grove Glades PreserveThe wildflowers are lovely at Prairie Grove Glades Preserve but I found that there is even more there ...

Maggie Miller, of Grindstone Cattle Company in Daniel, Wyoming, recently donated a copy of "Native Grasses of the Apache Highlands" by Matilda Essig to the UW Libraries’ Emmet D. Chisum Special ...

Photo: Radius Images/Corbis. ... control fires to mimic the natural cycles of the prairie ecosystem and is peppering the ground with seeds from prairie grasses that once grew there.

Grass fires on the eastern Kansas prairie, as seen from NASA's Aqua satellite. (Image credit: NASA images courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.) ...

Apr. 15—Patrons of Green Valley State Park have witnessed an alarming sight this year — dozens of trees removed or even burned. Though the image is drastic, park operators are working to ...

Grass fires on the eastern Kansas prairie, as seen from NASA's Aqua satellite. (Image credit: NASA images courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.) ...