When the Fort Winnebago Indian Agency House was built in 1832, the landscape consisted of vast stretches of open prairie with occasional stands of hardwoods. Grasses grew. Flowers bloomed. Birds ...

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, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Low-maintenance gardens that can be healthy and pretty, minus the chemicals and heavy watering, are becoming increasingly popular among homeowners. They make a lot of sense for ...

There is a particular adventure in feeling that we have reached the edge of land, in the illusion that we have discovered uncharted territory, even when we do so close to home. In north Kent, where ...

A North American prairie landscape has been recreated on six acres of land in West Sussex. Horticulturists at Wakehurst, near Haywards Heath, collected 12 million seeds and hand-planted 50,000 ...

As the prairie landscape steadily vanishes, the root cause is often overshadowed by the spotlight on industrial practices, with experts pointing to agriculture and energy development as the primary ...

A group of about 70 volunteers and representatives from the Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves and Nature Conservancy kicked off an effort last weekend to restore and preserve the Gensburg-Markham ...

A butterfly species once common on Minnesota’s prairie is fluttering again over native flowers and grasses. Hundreds of endangered Dakota skipper butterflies were re-introduced recently to Glacial ...

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history. Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, ...