America features many bold and beautiful landscapes, but there's one memorable and majestic ecosystem that you can recreate in your own yard.

“The suite of plants and animals that you see in tallgrass prairie are all there because they can tolerate fire every few years,” Bach said.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas Flint Hills, protects one of the largest remaining sections of the prairie that once stretched from Canada to Mexico. Prairies used to stretch ...

“Sea of Grass,” written by Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, hit bookstores just before ...

PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa -- Where Pauline Drobney stands, which at the moment happens to be amid acres of windswept grasses and wildflowers, America's tallgrass prairie seems to be alive and thriving.

The Tallgrass Prairie Center has multiple plots of flowers and grass behind its facility, all in an attempt to grow plants to harvest seeds to create more restored prairies.

The nearly 2000 bison living on the 25,000 acres of Osage County’s Tallgrass prairie preserve are being herded to smaller and smaller holding pastures before they each get their annual inspections.

The orchid is a unique insight into its nearly vanished ecosystem — the tallgrass prairie — as well as for understanding connectedness with pollinators and other plants, and is a good model ...

The public is invited to a tallgrass prairie hike at Ouabache Land Conservancy’s Jackson-Schnyder Nature Preserve, west of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. July 12. Phil Cox, ...

The gently rounded hills roll like ocean swells—nothing but amber grass and prairie flowers to the edge of the sky. To the west, a lone bison grazes in a creek draw.

The gently rounded hills roll like ocean swells—nothing but amber grass and prairie flowers to the edge of the sky. To the west, a lone bison grazes in a creek draw.

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster. A new book documents the destruction of this natural wonder and introduces ...