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 ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

He has created a 2,000- square -foot meadow in the backyard that is filled with native grasses and flowers. A 1,500 -square-foot garden sits on the east side of the house, and highly designed, drought ...

Even in its parched state, the Prairie Garden at the National Arboretum is a celebration of the collective and individual beauty of the wildflower. Amid scorched leaves and dried-out flower buds, the ...

The middle of America was once covered in a vast landscape of waving grasses, colorful wildflowers, grazing bison, and birdsong. Undulating hills of bluestem, switchgrass, and Indiangrass growing 3 or ...

BILLINGS – Aerial imagery collected during the Cold War to help the Army plan for the possibility of infantry mobilization and artillery siting on U.S. soil is helping scientists understand where ...

The third annual Maywood Prairie Walk will take place July 26 at Maywood Environmental Park in Sheboygan. The free event features a keynote speaker, self-guided prairie tours, food trucks and live ...

Mary Holm visits a company in Otsego, Minn. that produces and installs native plants. There has been a growing trend to include native plants and plantings in many yards and businesses. We visit a ...