Johnson manages the DNR’s Prairie Resource Unit, which creates site-specific seed mixes to reconstruct prairies ... Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and Tallgrass Prairie Center at the ...

Johnson manages the DNR’s Prairie Resource Unit, which creates site-specific seed mixes to reconstruct prairies at state ... Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and Tallgrass Prairie Center at the ...

Vegetation took root to grow that can be generalized and documented by seeds ... by prairie. When settlers arrived in the Midwest and Iowa, about 85 percent of Iowa was tall grass prairie ...

The Texas Agricultural Land Trust (TALT) is inviting Texas landowners to apply to participate in the Coastal Prairie Additive Conservation Partnership, a landmark initiative to preserve the state's ...

Years ago, Iowa’s landscape was about 80 to 85 percent tall grass prairie. Now, Ahrendsen said, tall grass prairie makes up less than 1 percent. “We’ve plowed about 99.99 percent of it up ...

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a historic site in Strong City dedicated to preserving a large portion of Kansas’ natural prairie, was named as Kansans’ top choice for outdoor workouts in ...

LAWRENCE — Reintroducing bison to tallgrass prairies can double biodiversity of native plants and increase drought resistance, a Kansas State University study found. The study collected 29 years of ...

Historically, tallgrass prairie extended from southeastern Manitoba to southeastern Texas, and east through Indiana, covering an area of 200 million acres. The wettest and most fertile and arable of ...