Wildlife Prairie Park is hosting a series of events, including Wild Nights, Critters and Cocktails, and Wildfire Concerts, to ...

Iowa City has a no-cost application process for requesting designation of natural planting areas. That application process ...

They're surprisingly fuzzy. Each wing looks like a mini-masterpiece of stained-glass art, in orange, black, and white.

Scattered across Washington’s prairies sit thousands of grass-covered bumps that have puzzled scientists for decades. These ...

Golden ragwort, or Packera aurea, is a self-seeding plant that's an understory perennial across Eastern North America, and ...

Now that spring has fully sprung, it’s time for backyard parties, barbeques, and bike rides. Something else to look forward to is the gardening season, May and June being the prime months to create ...

A few summers later, and with a few new members, that group is now Wild Prairie Winds, a professional wind quintet and ...

A sweeping look at the vanishing American prairie and two crime novels set in Minnesota are this week’s offerings to our readers. “Sea of Grass”: by Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty (Random House, $32 ...

Trina Young, a long-time Grays Harbor resident, spent much of her childhood outdoors on her family’s strawberry farm in Elma.

The result is wild temperature extremes ... which protect their stores of water and carbohydrates until the flames pass. In ...

Many North American bird species are losing secure nesting grounds as ecosystems are altered by development and climate ...

Sea of Grass,” written by Dave Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, is due in bookstores ...