Every landscaper wants native plants now. But there aren’t enough native plants, and it’s causing project delays and budget ...

Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between ...

Karen Horn found state and federally endangered leafy prairie clover while doing volunteer work on Langham Island.

To build their database, called RELIX, the team gathered and centralized existing data from studies of small patches of ...

It’s festival season in Door County, but Prairie Fest isn't about food or music it’s focused on conservation and the ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

The Richardson's ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains.

LaSalle Canyon in Starved Rock State Park near Oglesby, Illinois, is the kind of place that makes you question whether you’re still in the Prairie State or if you’ve somehow teleported to some ...

There's an effort to transition degraded land back to tallgrass prairies. But how do these transitions affect the overall health of the land?

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they have always held sacred as a messenger to the Creator.

With the lack of a native prairie, environmental predicaments arise, such as threats to soil and water quality and lack of homes for insects and wildlife. “Many plants in the prairie had human ...