By Mike Howe Prairie management in the park is a sub-function of the work the Buckthorn Brigade has been conducting for the ...

Back in 2003, a team of scientists from Iowa State University began to study how to best introduce conservation practices into working farmland without undermining the crop productivity of the fields ...

Ken Lassman dons a thick pair of protective gloves and walks Lawrence’s Prairie Park remnant with a burlap sack, gathering ...

you might run across some serious-looking folks poking through the grass growing on the roadside. They’ll be collecting prairie cordgrass, hunting for germplasm to improve the native plant that grows ...

Black-footed ferrets, North America’s only native ferret, still depend on humans for survival. That’s why a dedicated team has engineered new and ...

One gardener shared how their lawn had transformed into a beautiful native plant garden thanks to a single seed packet.

Gulf muhly grass and little bluestems stretching waaaay into the earth, like they do in cross-section drawings of prairie ...

The Mockingbird Solar Center, Ørsted’s largest solar project globally, is now online, next to protected prairie donated by ...

Columnist Tom Lounsbury says wild ringneck numbers are up this year and he plans on taking advantage of that fact whenever ...

The Orlan Love Prairie — and other parts of Linn County’s Wanatee Park — will undergo reseeding efforts after invasive plants ...

The state is home to nine native species of sunflower, each thriving in the local soil and climate ... Photo credit: SEWilco / Flickr / CC BY-SA 3.0 In the shortgrass native prairies of western ...