The heart of the American Midwest was one of the most important ecological and cultural borderland areas in North America for Indigenous people in early American history, according to a University of ...

On a recent weekday, short but mighty flames began consuming an expanse of tallgrass in Nachusa Grasslands, their advance marked with crackles and pops. Satisfied with the blaze, a group of eight ...

Spanning 4,000 acres of prairieland, this Iowa refuge is home to bison, elk, and over 200 native plant species, which can be ...

The largest portion of tallgrass prairie in the world is in danger. Celia Llopis-Jepsen of the Kansas News Service explains why the Flint Hills of Kansas is being overrun by trees and how it's ...

But fires have been removed, in the Smokey the Bear phenomenon, “where only you can prevent forest fires.” While that ...

Just before dawn, I let myself in through one of the cattle gates in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, an hour's drive north of Wichita, Kan. These fences, maintained by the National Park ...

The public invited to a tallgrass prairie walk at Ouabache Land Conservancy’s Jackson-Schnyder Nature Preserve, west of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 11.

Kansas’ prairie grasslands are America’s forgotten treasure. They support a web of wildlife, from bison and prairie-chickens to tiny sparrows, making them ecological treasures few realize they have.

I was born and raised in Nebraska, but my curiosity about the native prairies was not piqued until years later. In September 2018, over twenty-five years since the last time I lived in the state, I ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The heart of the American Midwest was one of the most important ecological and cultural borderland areas in North America for Indigenous people in early American history, according ...