Need a break from the busy streets of Chicago? Venture south to a 20,000-acre prairie, offering miles of trails and a chance ...

Created in memory of Bill Perry, the new native plant garden at Rockford Public Library is a living classroom for sustainable ...

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.

And what was growing there was an astonishing variety of prairie grasses and flowers, many rare and native to Illinois. Weston Cemetery, it turned out, was mostly virgin prairie, the last remnant ...

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, ...

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.

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