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 ...

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, ...

The American Prairie nonprofit seeks to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve in Montana where buffalo may roam and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As a stiff north wind buffeted our small group, Jens Jensen pointed to an emerging prairie outside ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 49, No. 3 (September 2015), pp. 377-387 (11 pages) Many snake species make lengthy linear migrations between overwintering sites and summer foraging or mating habitats.

Once common in the Texas Blackland Prairie ecoregion, dogtrot-style homes served as the inspiration for an interior breezeway that will connect two distinct entrances to the Frisco Public Library on ...