On Monday morning, the sound of chainsaws cut through the Lake Lewisville Environmental Learning Area. The 2,600-acre nature preserve is undergoing a prairie restoration. "We're trying to bring the ...

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 ...

University of Iowa Student Government secured funding for a new UI campus prairie restoration — a project that’s been nearly two years in the making. UISG passed a resolution Tuesday to allocate ...

Citizens can help monitor the prairie and bison, and Native Americans can reconnect to their roots under a community science ...

Prairie Restoration is an ecologically friendly way to restore some of the prairie land that was lost to industry, farming and commerce. Ecologically, prairie restoration aids in conservation of our ...

For the first time in generations, the wildflowers are in bloom in a little-known southeastern corner of Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan. The restored Star Pond Savanna is awash in black-eyed and ...

Nearly 25 years ago, biologist Robert F. Betz of Clarendon Hills persuaded officials at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to launch a prairie restoration project on the Fermilab grounds. Today, ...

Anyone who scans celebrity magazines has read the cliché about the actress who arrives for an interview, dewy and radiant, described as not bothering with a lick of makeup. A jaded reader might ...

FORT SMITH -- A Sebastian County golf course is converting some of its land back to a prairie habitat, creating a home for wildlife. Ben Geren Golf Course this year received the Arkansas Game and Fish ...