Prairie planting is big news right now, with the signature look comprising grasses and flowering perennials planted in a loose, airy mix. Although this unstructured style is often associated with ...

Collecting purple prairie clover (Dalea purpera) seeds at Branched Oak Lake State Recreation area for use in a Nebraska tallgrass prairie restoration project Credit: Mike Bullerman photo courtesy ...

Iowa’s landscape has drastically changed from a couple hundred years ago. Less than 0.1% of Iowa’s native prairie is left. Pockets can be found in tiny plots around the state, pushed aside by cities, ...

To establish prairie, you first need to get rid of whatever is already growing on the land. This can be difficult for people dedicated to the environment because the most common and successful way is ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

More than a 100 seed scatterers of all ages came to the Badger Army Ammunition Plant on Nov. 6 to plant the Dave Fordham Memorial Prairie. Sauk County Board Chairman William Wenzel said, "We need a ...

To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent efforts — ...