Many visitors may have noticed some changes to the Nature Area earlier this spring. Some of you may have thought, “What have they done now?” as you hiked through the charred and blackened remains of ...

AMES, Iowa – A recently awarded federal grant will help an innovative Iowa State University program expand its mission to protect soil and water quality by planting strips of native prairie on ...

A native prairie pasture in western Douglas County. Before European settlement, Kansas was dominated by vast prairies of tall grasses and wildflowers. However, farming and development have since ...

Industrial agriculture is profitable, but recent trends show that profit may only last in the short run if soil health isn’t prioritized. Farmers in the central US in the 1930s learned the hard way.

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 ...

“It all starts with the soil,” Neil Diboll tells me. I met Diboll in 1990 at a prairie restorationists’ conference in Iowa. A year or two later, I visited Prairie Nursery, a nursery he opened in ...

Illinois, nicknamed the Prairie State by early settlers, was once dominated by a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Prairies are characterized by deep, fertile soils that are the result of thousands of ...

GLYNDON, Minn. — A plot of land near the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton middle and high schools will be transformed in the coming years from a field of green grass to a vibrant prairie filled with the pink ...