Discover why Kansas prairie grasslands are vital, endangered, and how you can help protect this hidden natural treasure.

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

Those taking a recent tallgrass prairie hike at Oak Ridge Prairie County Park in Griffith experienced more than just physical exercise among the flora and fauna. Some were able to identify specific… ...

Scraps and tatters are about all that’s left of the beautiful tallgrass prairie that once covered most of Iowa with big bluestem, Indian grass, blazing star, and rattlesnake master.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas Flint Hills, ... Plants and animals maintain a complex relationship, pollinating flowers, spreading seeds, ...

LITTLE ROCK — An innovative project to save a precious remnant of native tallgrass prairie near Siloam Springs has proved successful enough to draw national attention and serve as a model for ...

Soil microbial community composition in tallgrass prairie restorations converge with remnants across a 27-year chronosequence. Environmental Microbiology , 2017; DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13785 Cite ...

So for all the species of plants and animals of the Tallgrass Prairie—who number in the thousands if you count the insects—the end was nigh as soon as the Europeans arrived en masse, which ...

Tallgrass prairie is one of the most threatened and least protected habitats in the world. Over the past several years, native plants have been disappearing from prairies, especially those not ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You’ll only find it if you know where to look.

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.