Nearly 10 acres of native prairie in Story County are ready for their time in the spotlight. The dedication of Landers Prairie is set for 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, at Prairie Valley Preserve near ...

BACK TO YOU. WE’LL BE READY. THANKS, BILL. VOLUNTEERS GATHER IN WESTERN IOWA TO PRESERVE THE PRAIRIES. LOCAL EXPERTS SAY IOWA USED TO BE 85% TALLGRASS PRAIRIE, BUT THEY SAY 99.9% OF THAT IS NOW GONE ...

Iowa swans, along with swans from Minnesota and Wisconsin, are part of the interior population of trumpeter swans. Some of ...

On this edition of Manager’s Special from Siouxland Public Media, host Mark Munger invites listeners along on a walk through a living prairie on the campus of Western Iowa Tech Community College.

Prairie strips can improve measures of soil health faster than expected, according to new research by Iowa State University ...

AMES, Iowa – A recently awarded federal grant will help an innovative Iowa State University program expand its mission to protect soil and water quality by planting strips of native prairie on ...

Greene County farmer and Coon Rapids native Fred Long was honored as an Iowa Nature Champion during the 2025 Iowa Nature ...

A seldom observed remnant of Iowa’s historic past, the rare and delicate pasque flower, is currently on full display at North Iowa’s Kothenbeutel Heritage Prairie. Pasque flowers are the very first ...

A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. To curb habitat loss and help protect wildlife across the state, experts are pushing for Iowa to adopt ...

Iowa (KWQC) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking feedback on its 25-year wildlife action plan, which must be reviewed every 10 years per federal law. The action plan, according to the ...