It’s been 30 years since bison were reintroduced to the Tallgrass Prairie, a once thriving ecosystem that had been dead for more than 100 years. Now, the bison population has grown to nearly 2000 and ...

Less than 4% of this ecosystem is still intact in North America. Here’s how you can appreciate it fully. Courtesy of Ginny Varraveto Remember that time we went to the prairie grasslands and there was ...

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 ...

Many visitors may have noticed some changes to the Nature Area earlier this spring. Some of you may have thought, “What have they done now?” as you hiked through the charred and blackened remains of ...

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 ...

Less than four percent of America's 140 million acres of prairies remain. STRONG CITY, Kan., July 11, 2010— -- In the days when pioneers drove their wagons west, tallgrass prairies covered over ...

Prairies once extended in a broad, almost continuous band from southern Saskatchewan, Canada, into the Midwest and Central United States and southward to Texas and New Mexico. These vast grasslands ...