Several years ago, I had the chance to drive around the Dakotas and was struck by the haunting beauty and the sheer immensity ...

You don’t need to live on the prairie to have a prairie garden. Natural landscapes featuring mainly native plants are being sown in yards across North America as environmentally friendly alternatives ...

Even in its parched state, the Prairie Garden at the National Arboretum is a celebration of the collective and individual beauty of the wildflower. Amid scorched leaves and dried-out flower buds, the ...

YARD AND GARDEN: Gardening in the time of a pandemic While there are many noteworthy prairie plants, some favorites include prairie dropseed, little bluestem and purple prairie clover. Prairie ...

As the prairie landscape steadily vanishes, the root cause is often overshadowed by the spotlight on industrial practices, with experts pointing to agriculture and energy development as the primary ...

When the Fort Winnebago Indian Agency House was built in 1832, the landscape consisted of vast stretches of open prairie with occasional stands of hardwoods. Grasses grew. Flowers bloomed. Birds ...

The nasty drought of 2021 wasn’t the region’s first and it likely won’t be the last. Is nature calling us back to a simpler prairie landscape that suited the Upper Midwest well for millennia, ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Joint Base Lewis-McChord is home to one of the rarest ecosystems in the country, the South Sound prairie. These landscapes were created by retreating glaciers 15,000 ...