You don't need to live on the prairie to have a prairie garden. Natural landscapes featuring mainly native plants are being sown in yards across North America as environmentally friendly alternatives ...

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 ...

A 1,500 -square-foot garden sits on the east side of the house, and highly designed, drought-tolerant prairie beds fill 300 to 400 feet in the front. It’s quite a contrast from the perfectly manicured ...

The middle of America was once covered in a vast landscape of waving grasses, colorful wildflowers, grazing bison, and birdsong. Undulating hills of bluestem, switchgrass, and Indiangrass growing 3 or ...

The nasty drought of 2021 wasn’t the region’s first and it likely won’t be the last. Is nature calling us back to a simpler prairie landscape that suited the Upper Midwest well for millennia, ...

Quick Take Preventing total extinction necessitated a successful recovery from a remnant population of only 1,000 bison. The Homestead Act of 1862 turned 160-acre parcels into logistical obstacles for ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Joint Base Lewis-McChord is home to one of the rarest ecosystems in the country, the South Sound prairie. These landscapes were created by retreating glaciers 15,000 ...