Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Prairie City was named the best national wildlife refuge to visit in America. That’s according to a new USA TODAY 10Best list, released on March 13, in which a ...

On a recent weekday, short but mighty flames began consuming an expanse of tallgrass in Nachusa Grasslands, their advance marked with crackles and pops. Satisfied with the blaze, a group of eight ...

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 ...

PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa — The rolling hills and grasses of Iowa’s prairies were almost lost to the sands of time. “The prairie… is Iowa's heritage," one of the refuge volunteers said. The Neal Smith ...

POLK COUNTY, Minn. – When Tim Cowdery – a now-retired hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey – published a report in 2019 highlighting more than a decade of research at Glacial Ridge National ...

CHASE COUNTY, Kan. (KCTV) - It is a true slice of the Midwest. From the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve to the small towns along the way, a visit to the Flint Hills of Kansas is a unique ...

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A Red Angus cow from the Mushrush herd wears a GPS collar. Prairie wildlife needs a patchy landscape, in which different areas bear the marks of varying degrees of grazing. Scientists have a plan to ...

Wildlife as big as bison and as small as quail share thousands of prairie acres with wildflowers and tall native grass at Prairie State Park in southwestern Missouri. The 4,000-acre state park ...

Illinois, nicknamed the Prairie State by early settlers, once was dominated by a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Prairies are characterized by deep, fertile soils that are the result of thousands of ...