LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - On a farm near Western that includes a remnant of the tall-grass prairie that once covered eastern Nebraska, Kay Kottas makes her living harvesting and selling ...
IPR's Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe speaks with Jim Pease, Pauline Drobney and Pete Eyheralde at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge on Earth Day in front of an audience. Land that was once ...
Justin Pippert, a friend of Cathy Irvine, who donated farmland to the Tallgrass Prairie Center, during a dedication ceremony on Friday at her late husband's family farm in Dysart. Irvine donated 77 ...
A group of volunteers hope to bring native wildlife back into abundance by reestablishing grasslands that were wiped out after the European settlement of Missouri. Now in its third year, they've ...
Scraps and tatters are about all that’s left of the beautiful tallgrass prairie that once covered most of Iowa with big bluestem, Indian grass, blazing star, and rattlesnake master. Little strips of ...
Prairies used to cover a swath of America from Mexico to Canada. But not all prairies are the same. Different conditions dictate each prairie ecosystem, and thus what plants and animals exist in each ...
A worker at North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City feeds combine-harvested prairie seed into an auger. Since 2000, a small team at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been ...
Through the Tallgrass Prairie Center and organizations like the Monarch Joint Venture Habitat Program, the public has become increasingly aware of degradation of butterfly and insect habitat and ...