Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ONEIDA - The sound of car engines slowly slipped away as Tony Kuchma walked alongside canary-colored blooms of green-headed ...

To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent efforts — ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --Life on the farm is feast or famine for honey bees, but a new study suggests access to restored prairie can help bees remain well-fed and prepare for winter. There are are many risks ...

GRATTAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Prairies are a rarity in Michigan, an ecosystem lost mostly to time. While, hundreds of years ago, these large, open grasslands dominated the Mitten State, now only ...

From a field on an Illinois university campus, to rare, untouched land in Texas, here are some efforts to replant once-abundant prairie in the Midwest and Great Plains. Subscribe to the new Harvest ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — When Rich and Marion Patterson bought their home near Cedar Rapids in 2010, a lone magnolia decorated the manicured front lawn. Today, their home sitting on 2 acres is surrounded by ...

The couple who restored an early 20th century Hinsdale mansion, built in the Prairie Style with influences of Austrian and Scottish artistic movements of the same era, have it on the market at just ...

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 ...

The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered comprehension. Newcomers to the seemingly endless grasslands that once spanned approximately a quarter of North America often hit a psychic ...

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 ...