The minnow U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ecologists pulled from the shallow moat was a puny thing, with a flare of orange rimming its fins and a dark band of scales running the full length of its ...

The new book, "Sea of Grass," traces the history and future of the American prairie, laying out the stunning loss of grassland in North America and meeting the people fighting to bring it back.

CHICAGO — To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent ...

To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent efforts — ...