In one year, the program, which works in partnership with the Johnson County Master Gardeners, has increased the number of ...

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

Native plants benefit local ecosystems by providing habitat and food for wildlife, especially pollinators. Private landowners play a crucial role in habitat preservation due to significant land ...

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 ...

No-till and cover crops are among the best ways to counter topsoil erosion, but Trump administration may reduce federal ...

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.

Take a look at the beautiful gardens in Alton this Friday ...