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 ...

FOSTORIA, Iowa -- The old prairie is back. A new business in Northwest Iowa will sell you what you need to start your own piece of native Iowa prairie. They'll even start it for you. "We planted 600 ...

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