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Iowa’s landscape has drastically changed from a couple hundred years ago. Less than 0.1% of Iowa’s native prairie is left. Pockets can be found in tiny plots around the state, pushed aside by cities, ...

To establish prairie, you first need to get rid of whatever is already growing on the land. This can be difficult for people dedicated to the environment because the most common and successful way is ...

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 ...

More than a 100 seed scatterers of all ages came to the Badger Army Ammunition Plant on Nov. 6 to plant the Dave Fordham Memorial Prairie. Sauk County Board Chairman William Wenzel said, "We need a ...

If you are looking for a tall flowering plant to frame the back of your flower garden, prairie dock may just be the thing. Prairie dock is a hardy perennial plant native to Michigan and other nearby ...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn -- Weaver Lake Elementary's fifth graders already hold the seeds of knowledge, but the students have been waiting patiently for the day the future grows. "Our class is trying to ...

PULLMAN – Weeds had overrun the 60-foot hill behind Jacob Leachman’s house. Unsure what to do, Leachman reached out to a local nonprofit that plants “pocket prairies” in backyards and empty fields.