An Iowa State professor says planting native prairie plants in strips helps prevent soil loss and improves soil health, but ...

Neil Diboll emphasizes working with your existing soil and selecting plant communities naturally adapted to it, creating ...

Miles of winding paths -- both paved and unpaved -- invite visitors to explore a living mosaic of Missouri's natural beauty.

Since 2000, a small team at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been collecting, cleaning and distributing seeds to ...

Lakeshore State Park houses Milwaukee's only managed prairie, filled with native grasses, wildflowers, birds, bees, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Corn crops have a voracious appetite for nitrogen. Purdue University scientists are investigating ...

Prescribed burns are used to eliminate invasive plant species and help sunlight reach prairie plant roots. But how do they ...

We’ve come here for the flowers. Five adults and a small child — all prairie-dwellers, all happy to be out of the car and moving through knee-high grasses. Blossoms of yarrow, bergamot ...

Earlier today the prairiewoods spirituality center held a prairie burn to a portion of their prairie land. A common practice ...

It may be the sweeping views of the city skyline and Lake Michigan, or the sounds and smells of the Summerfest grounds, that draw people to Lakeshore State Park. But there is something just as ...