Healthy prairie community with grey-headed coneflower and bee balm. (Photo by Liz Koziol) The North American prairie once covered 170 million acres, making it the largest ecosystem on the continent, ...

They don’t retain water and increase runoff, plus whatever was on the parking lot surface prior. Plant diversity is limited to stunted volunteers from airborne seeds and insects, to those that can ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - The Native Prairie Project, which attracted pollinators like monarch butterflies, is no longer outside an Ohio zoo because it has been mowed down. Toledo Deputy Mayor ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -Many of us are familiar with the concept of a prairie, but what does it consist of? “Prairies in general are described as an ecosystem that is dominated by herbaceous plants ...

The collaborative effort from two conservancy agencies will enlarge a protected wildlife sanctuary outside Fargo-Moorhead.

Johnson County homeowners will soon be able to apply for the Johnson County Soil Health Pocket Prairie Program, which helps ...

MANKATO — In 1856, two years before Minnesota became a state, Irish immigrant John Quirk purchased a parcel of native prairie in Le Sueur County to convert to farmland near the northwest end of Lake ...

When farmer Gary Guthrie describes recent changes to his farm, his eyes light up. After adding native prairie to his central Iowa operation, he remembers hearing the hum of pollinators flocking to the ...

A stretch of lawn along East Mitchell Street will soon be transformed into a native prairie garden as part of the First ...